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KEYNOTES AND CHARACTERISTICS 
WITH COMPARISONS 



"I THE 



Leading Remedies 



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MATERIA MEDICA 



BY 

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H. C. ALLEN, M.D. 



Professor of Mai i hi \ Miii i ins mi I i egb 

and Hospital, Chi 



Philadelphia and Chicago 

BOERICKE & TAFEL 
1898 



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18876 




Copyright, 1898, 
BOERICKE & TAFEL. 



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PREFACE. 

The life-work of the student of the homoeopathic 
Materia Medica ie one of constant comparison and dif- 
ferentiation. Ee muBl compare the pal -f a 
remedy with the recorded anamnesis of the patient; 
he musl differentiate the apparently Bimilar symptoms 
of two or more medicinal agents in order to seled the 
similimum. To enable the student or practitioner to 
do this correctly and rapidly he must have as a hasis 
for comparison some knowledge of the individuality of 
the remedy; something thai ie peculiar, uncommon) or 
sufficiently characteristic in the confirmed pathog 
of a polychresl remedy that may be used as a pivotal 
point of comparison. It may be a so-called "k< 
note," a "characteristic," the "red Btrand of the 
rope," any central modality or principle — as the 
gravation from motion n\' Bryonia, the amelioration 
from motion of Rhus, the furious, vicious delirium of 
Belladonna or the apathetic indifference of Phosphoric 
acid — sonic familiar landmark around which the symp- 
toms may be arranged in the mind for comparison. 

Something of this kind seems indispensable to ena- 
ble us to intelligently and successfully use our volu- 

(iii) 



IV PREFACE. 

minous symptomatology. Also, it* we may judge from 
the small number of homoeopathic physicians who 
rely on the single remedy in practice, and the almost 
constant demand for a "revision" of the Materia 
Medica, its study in the past, as well as at present, has 
not been altogether satisfactory to the majority. 

An attempt to render the student's task less dif- 
ficult, to simplify its study, to make it both interesting 
and useful, to place its mastery within the reach of 
every intelligent man or woman in the profession, is 
the apology for the addition of another monograph to 
<>ur present works of reference. 

It is all-important that the first step in the study of 
homoeopathic therapeutics be correctly taken, for the 
pathway is then more direct and the view more com- 
prehensive. The object of this work is to aid the 
student to master that which is guiding and character- 
ise in the individuality of each remedy and thus 
utilize more readily the symptomatology of the homoe- 
opathic Materia Medica, the most comprehensive and 
practical work for the cure of the sick ever given the 
medical profession. It is the result of years of study 
indent, practitioner and teacher, and is published 
at the earnest solicitation of many alumni of Hering 
( 'ollege, with the hope that it may be of as much bene- 
fit to the beginner as it has been to the compiler. 



CHARACTERISTICS 



>I" — r i XT I 



Leading Remedies. 



Y( omti;. 

I- generally indicated in acute or recenl 
earring in young persoi _irl> of a full, 

plethoric habit who lead a Bedentary lii 
easily affected by atmospheric ch 

Complaints caused by exposure to cold, dry north 
or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold air 
while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked | 
spiration. 

Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great ner 
excitability; afraid t into a crowd 

where there is any excitement or many people; 
cross the street 

The countenan ive of fear; the life is 

rendered miserable by fear; ia sure his < ; will 

prove fatal: predicts the day he will die. 

Restless, anxious, does everything in great hi 
must change position often; everything startles him. 

Tains are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he be- 
comes very restless. 
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ACONITE— (Omtinued). 

Hahnemann Bays: " Whenever Aconite is chosen 
homeopathically, you must, above all, observe the 
moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resem- 
bles them: die anguish of mind and body; the rest- 
Lessness; the disquiet not to be allayed/ 3 

Tins mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the 
most trivial ailment. 

Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab. — during 
menses, Xat. e.). 

On rising from a recumbent position the red face 
becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy 
and falls, and he fears to rise again ; often accompanied 
by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness. 

Amenorrhcea in plethoric young girls; after fright, 
to prevent suppression of menses. 

Aconite should never be given simply to control the 
fever, never alternated with other drugs for that pur- 
pose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug 
is needed ; Aconite will cure the case. 

Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly 
always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever. 

Aggravation. — Evening and night, pains are insup- 
portable ; in a warm room ; when rising from bed ; 
lying on affected side. 

Amelioration. — In the open air (Puis, better in 
open air); after perspiring; from wine. 

Relation. — Complementary to Cofiea in fever, sleep- 
lessness, intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism. 
Rarely indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions. 

Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes 
and follows it in aeute inflammatory conditions. 

Abuse of Aconite requires Sulphur. 

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ABROT VMM. 
Marasmus of children with marked tion. 

(Iod., Sanic., Tub.) 

The skin is flabby and 1 in folds -k, 

Xat. in. J. 

Painful contra rom cram] 

following colic 

Rheumatism : for th< pain before the 

swelling comm from suddenly-checked diarrhoea 

or other secretions. 

Gout: .joint- -till" swollen, with pricki n: 

wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed 

Very lame and sore al! ". 

Etching chilblains '•.). 

Great weakness and prostration and a kin- -tic 

fever with children; unable to stand. 

In marasmus head bo weak cannot hold it up 
(JEth.). 

Marasmus of lower extremities only. 

Ravenous hunger; losing flesh while well 

(Nat. in.. Iod.). 

Child is ill-natured, irritable, ad despondent 

A(Ti:A. 

Puerperal mania; think- she is com- 

pare, Cal< 

Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. 

Sensation as it' a heavy, black cloud had settled all 
over her and enveloped her head so that all i> dark] 
and confusion. 

Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or 
ovaries. Heart's action ceases suddenly : impending 
suffocation. 

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AX3TEA— {Continued). 

Menses : irregular ; delayed or suppressed by mental 
emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria 
or mania. 

Spasms: hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine 
disease: worse during menses. 

Rheumatic dysmenorrhea. 

False labor-like pains; nausea; "shivers" during 
first stage of labor; after-pains in the groins. 

Severe left-sided infra-mammary pains. 

When given during last month of pregnancy short- 
ens labor, if symptoms correspond (Caul., Puis.). 

Excessive muscular soreness after dancing, skating, 
or other violent muscular exertion. 

Relation. — Similar to Caulophyllum and Pulsatilla 
in uterine and rheumatic affections. 

Aggravation. — During menstruation ; increase of 
mental symptoms; the more profuse the flow the 
greater the suffering. 

^SCULUS. 

For persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who 
suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. 

Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount 
of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, skin. 

Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation ; 
more or less constant; affecting sacrum and hips. 

The back gives out when walking or stooping for- 
ward : must sit or lie down. 

Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are 
swollen, burn, feel dry and raw. 

Venous congestion, especially portal and hemor- 
rhoidal. 

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j;s( ili rg 

Despondent; very irritable ; loses tern] ily and 

gains control -lowly. 

Follicular pharyngitis; violent burning, raw 
tion in throat; dryness and roughness ofthi 

Rectum : dryness and heat oi it' full 

sticks; knife-like pains shoot up tin- rectum 
Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, purplish ; 
rarely bleeding. 

Constipation; hard dry stool, difficult s, with 

dryness and heat <»f rectum, 

Qsation of heaviness and lameness in back. 

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and Bpii 

Prolapsus uteri and leucorrhosa, with lameness in 
back and neat fatigue from walking 

Back gives out. 

Relation. — similar to Aloe, Collinsonia, Xux. Sul- 
phur in hemorrhoids. 

After Collinsonia has improved piles, /Esc. often 

cur*-. 

Useful at'h-r Xux and Sulph. liad tailed to cure 

pil» 

l/riHSA. 

Especially tor children during dentition in hot sum- 
mer weather. 

Great weakness ; children cannot stand; unable to 

hold up the head | Ahrot.). 

Idiocy in children ; incapacity to think. 

An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a 
drawn condition and a well-marked linea nasalia. 
Features expressive of pain and anxiety. 
Herpetic eruption on end of the nos 
Intoleran.ee of milk : cannot hear milk in any form ; 

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JETHVSA— (Continued). 

it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken, followed 
by weakness and drowsiness (Mag, C.). 

Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden 
vomiting of frothy, milk-white substance, followed by 

curdled milk and cheesy matter. 

Spasms, with clinched thumbs, red face, eyes turned 
downwards, pupils fixed and dilated, foam at the 
mouth, jaws locked: pulse small, hard, quick. 

Weakness and prostration; after vomiting, after 
stool, after spasm. 

Relation. — Similar to Ant. c, Ars., Calc. 

AGARICUS. 

Persons with light hair ; skin and muscles lax. 

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation. 

Drunkards, especially for their headaches ; bad ef- 
fects after a debauch. 

Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite 
and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in 
face. 

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during 
sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single 
muscles to dancing of whole body ; trembling of whole 
body. 

Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were 
piercing the skin. 

Burning, itching redness of various parts ; ears and 
. lace, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot. 

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything 
in the way. 

Spim* sensitive to touch; worse mornings. 

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AGARICUS 

Spinal irritation d exual e: 

Nervous prostration after sexual debauch 

Every motion, every turn of body < . ain in 

spin.-. 

Prolapsus, post-clim ag-down pain al- 

most intolerable (compare Murbx, Sbpia, Liliui 

Extremely sensitive to cold air (CaL, Kali c, Psor.). 

Eeadaches of p r who 

readily become delirious in fever (Bell.). 

Complaints appear diagonally ; upper left and lower 
right Bide. 

Aggravation. — After <;itiiiL r : al old 

air; mental application; before a thunder-storm 
Psor.). 

AGNUS. 

For the lymphatic constitution. 

Ab8i nt-minded, reduced p jhi ; cai 

led : has to read a sentence t\* : . om- 

prehend. 

"Old sinners," with impofe t; unmar- 

ried persons suffering from nervous debility. 

/'■■ old age; melancholy, apathy, mental dis- 

traction, self-contempt ; arising in young ns from 

abuse of the sexual pow< 

pleU impotence ; relaxation, flaccidity, coldness 
of genitalia. No sexual power or <lr- : - 

Impotence, after frequent attacl 

Bad effects from suppi gonorrhoea. 

Gleet, with absence of Bexual desire or erections. 

Leucorrhcea, transparent, but staining linen yellow; 
from the very relaxed parts. 



AlGNUS— (Continued). 

Deficient secretion or suppression of milk in nursing 
women; often with great sadness: says she will die. 

Complains of imaginary odor before the nose, as of 
herring or musk. 

Relations. — Selenium follows well after Agnus in 
weakness of sexual organs or impotence. 

ALOE SOCOTKINA. 

Adapted to indolent, " weary " persons; averse to 
either mental or physical labor; it fatigues. 

Old people; especially women of relaxed, phleg- 
matic habit. Extreme prostration, with perspiration. 

Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his com- 
plaints, especially when constipated. 

Diseases of mucous membranes; causes the pro- 
duction of mucus in jelly-like lumps from throat or 
rectum. 

Headaches are w r orse from heat, better from cold 
application (Ars.) ; alternating with lumbago. 

Has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and 
drinking; diarrhoea, with want of confidence in 
sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morn- 
ing (Sulph.). 

Cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of ab- 
domen; excruciating, before and during stool; all 
pains cease after stool, leaving profuse sweating and 
extreme weakness. 

Flatus offensive, burning, copious ; much flatus with 
small stool. 

Solid stool passes involuntarily; hungry during 
diarrhoea. 

Hemorrhoids, like a bunch of grapes; constant bear- 



ALOE 

down in rectum ; bleedi tider, hot, re- 

lieved by cold water. 

Etching and burning in anus, preventing sleep. 

Relation. — Like Sulphur in many chronic die 
with abdominal plethora and congestion of poctal 
circulation. 

Aggravation. — Early morning; sedentary life ; hot, 
dry weather ; after eating 

Amelioration. — Cold water; cold ; dis- 

charge of QatUfi and Btool. 

ALLIUM CEPA. 

Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous mem- 
branes. 

Catarrhal headache, with coryza. Worse in the 
evening, better in open air; worse on returnii b 

warm room. 

Eeadache ceases during m irns when flow 

disappears ( Lach. ). 

Eyes; burning, biting, smarting a- from am 
must nil) them: watery and suffused; capillaries in- 
jected ami excessive lachrymation. 

Coryza; profuse, watery ami acrid nasal discharg 
with profuse, bland lachrymation (profuse, full of 
acrid tears, bland and fluent coryza, Euph.). 

Spring coryza: after damp northeasterly wind-: 
discharge burns and corrodes nose and upper lip. 

I lav fever in August every year; violent sneezing 
on rising from bed; from handling peacl 

Nasal polypus. 

Catarrhal laryngitis; cough compels patient to 
grasp the larynx: seems as if cough would tear it. 

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ALLIUM CEPA— (Continued). 

Traumatic chronic neuritis; neuralgia of stump 
alter amputation ; burning and stinging pains. 

Panaritia: with red streaks up arm; pains drive to 
despair ; in child-bod. 

Phlebitis, puerperal; after forceps delivery. 

Relation. — Complementary; Phos., Puis., Thuja. 

Compatible, before Calc. and Sil. in polypus. 

Aggravation. — Predominantly in the evening and 
in warm room (Puis.). 

Amelioration. — In cold room and open air (Puis.). 

ALUMINA. 

Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic dis- 
eases ; " the Aconite of chronic diseases." 

Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Cal., Psor., 
Sib). 

Spare, dry, thin subjects; dark complexion; mild, 
cheerful disposition; hypochondriacs; dry, tettery, 
itching eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable 
itching of whole body when getting warm in bed 
(Sulph.) ; scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful. 

Constipation : no desire for and no ability to pass 
»1 until there is a large accumulation; great strain- 
ing, must grasp the seat of closet tightly; stool hard, 
knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus; or 
soft, clayey, adhering to part's (Plat). 

Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great 
-training (Plat.). 

Constipation of nursing children, from artificial 

»d ; bottle-fed babies. 

Painful colic. 

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ALUMINA— ( 

Bae to strain a1 stool in order to urinal 

Leucorrhcea: acrid and profuse, running down to the 
heels; worse daring the daytime; relieved by cold 
bathing 

Abnormal appetite ; craving for starch, chalk, char- 
!. cloves, coffee- or rands, acids and indig 

tible tiling (Psor.). 

Chronic enictations for war-: won 

All irritating thingi — -alt. wine, vinegar, pepper — 
produce cough. 

After menses; exhausted physically and mentally, 
scarcely able to Bpeak (< !arbo an., 

Relations. — Complementary to Bry. Follows Bry., 
Lach., Bulph. Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia. 

Similar to Bar. c, I Ion., in ailm< old people. 

Aggravation. — In cold air; during winter ; while 
sitting; from eating potato 

Amelioration. — Mild summer weather ; warm 
drinks. 

Alumina is one of the chief antidotes for lead \ 
soning. 

AMBRA. 

For children, especially young girls who are i 

citable, nervous and weak. 

Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily. 

Great sadness, sits for days weeping 

After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, 
must get up (Act., Be] 

Ranula with fetid breath. 

Sensation of coldness in abdomen. 

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AMBRA— {Continued). 

The presence of others is unbearable during stool; 
frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious. 

Metrorrhagia between periods, at very little acci- 
dent — a long walk, after every hard stool, etc. 

Leucorrhoea; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially 
at night 

Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructa- 
tions and hoarseness; worse from talking or reading 
aloud (Phos.); evening without, morning with expec- 
toration (Hyos.) ; whooping-cough, but without crow- 
ing inspiration. 

Aggravation. — Warm drinks, warm room ; music ; 
lying down ; reading or talking aloud ; the presence of 
many people. 

Amelioration. — After eating; cold air; cold food 
and drinks. 

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 

Stout, fleshy women with various troubles in con- 
silience of leading a sedentary life ; delicate women 
who must have the " smelling-bottle " continually at 
hand ; readily catch cold in winter. 

Loses breath the moment they fall asleep, must 
awaken to get breath (Grind., Lach.). 

Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather. 

Nosebleed, when washing the face and hands in the 
morning, from left nostril. 

Ozena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose fre- 
quently. 

Stoppage of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through 
the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria; long-lasting 
coryza ; " snuffles " of infants. 

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AMMONIUM CABBONICXJM- 

Putrid sore throat ; tenden ingrenoue ulcera- 

tion of tonsils. 

In diphtheria or scarlatina when tin topped 

u]>: child cannot sleep because cannot ir^r it- breath. 

Cholera-like symptoms at the commencem< 
menstruation ( Ver. 

Menses: premature, abundant, preceded bygripii 
colic; acrid, makes the thighs sore; copious at night 
and when sitting. 

Leucorrhoea: watery, burning from the uterus; 
acrid) profuse from the vagina. 

Dyspnoea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on 
ascending even a t«v. in a warm room. 

One of the best remedies in emphysema. 

Iry, from tickling in throat as from dust, 
every morning from 8 to 4 a.m. (Kali « . 

Body red, as it' from scarlatina. 

Malignant scarlatina with deep Bleep; 
breathing. Miliary rash or faintly deveL >ped erupti 
threatened paralysis of brain. 

Relations. — It antidotes poisoning with Rhus and 
stings of ii 

Affects the right Bide m< 

Inimical to Lach< 

Aggravation. — Cold, wet weather; wet poulti 
from washing; during mens< 

Amelioration. — Lying on abdomen A ; on 

painful side (Puis. 

AMMONIUM MUBIATICUM. 

Especially adapted to those who are fat and slug- 

h ; or body large and fat but legs too thin. 

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A MMONIUM MURIATICUM— (Continued). 

Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip. 

During menses; diarrhoea and vomiting; bloody dis- 
charge from the bowels; neuralgic pains in the feet; 
flow more profuse at night. 

Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. 

Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expul- 
sion : crumble from verge of anus; vary in color, no 
two stools alike (Puis.). 

Hemorrhoids: sore and smarting; with burning 
and stinging in the rectum : especially after suppressed 
k'ueorrhcea. 

Leucorrhcea ; like white of egg^ preceded by griping 
pain about the navel; brown, slimy, painless, after 
every urination. 

Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking ; ten- 
sion in the joints as from shortening of the muscles. 

Offensive sweat of the feet (Graph., Psor., Sil.). 

Relation. — Followed by, Ant. c, Phos., Puis., 
Sanic). 

ANACARDIUM. 

Sudden loss of memory ; patient is greatly troubled 
about his forgetfulness ; confused, unfit for business. 

Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness. 

Irresistible desire to curse and swear. 

Lack of confidence in himself and others. 

When walking, is anxious, as if some one were pur- 
suing him; suspects everything around him. 

Hypochondriac, with hemorrhoids and constipation. 

Sensation, as of a hoop or band around a part (Cac, 
Carb. ac, SulphA; as of a dull, blunt instrument 
pressing 

Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is 

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\\ \( ARDUM 

serious over laughable things. Think If a dem 

curses and swears. 

Headache; relieved entirely when eati 
when lying down in bed al night, and when about fatt- 
ing asleep; worse during motion and work. 

Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary per- 
sons ( Bry., Xiixj. 

Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Kava- 
kava). 

Swallows food and drink hastily ; Bymptoms disap- 
pear while eating ( Psor.). 

Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire 
passes away without evacuation ; rectum seems power- 
. with sensation as if plugged ap. 

Relations. — Bymptoms are prone to go from right 
to left (Lye.). 

Anacardium follow- well after Lye. and Puis. 

Plat, follows, and is followed by Anacardium, 



ANTHK U IM >l. 

In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with 
ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. 

When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails 

to relieve the burning pain o\' carbuncle or malignant 

ulceration. 

Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipeli 
a malignant type. 

Felon; the worse cases, with sloughing and terrible 
burning pain. 

Malignant pustule: black or blue blisters; often 
fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours. 

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^NTHRACINUM— {Continued). 

Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge 
of ichorous offensive pus, 

Dissectingwounds, especially if tendency is to become 
gangrenous; septic lever and marked prostration. 

Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes 
color and red streaks from the wound map out the 
course of lymphatics. 

Septic inflammation from absorption of pus or other 
deleterious substances, with burning pain and great 
prostration. 

Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep. 

Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever 
or of the dissecting-room ; poisoning by foul breath. 

Hering says : " To call a carbuncle a surgical dis- 
ease is the greatest absurdity. An incision is always 
injurious and often fatal. A case has never been lost 
under the right kind of treatment, and it should always 
be treated by internal medicine only." 

Relations. — After, Ars., Lach., Sec, Carb. ac. 

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 

For children and young people inclined to grow fat 

(Cal.). 

Old people with morning diarrhoea, or alternate 
diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. 

Gastric complaints from overeating ; stomach weak, 
digestion easily disturbed; a thick, rnilky-white coating on 
!<>n(i>ir, which is the red strand of the remedy. 

Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched 
or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak or be 
spoken to (Ant. t., Tod., Sil.). 

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ANTIMONH M CBUDUM 

Great Badness, with weeping 
Loathing of life. 

Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing 
affects her (Puis.); abjecl d< suicide by drowns 

in- 

[rresistible desire to talk in rhyme or repeat 
vers< 

Qtimental mood in the moonlight, especially 
Btatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection. 

Disposition to abnormal growths of the .-kin ; fii 
nails do not grow rapidly ; crashed nails grow in splits 
like warts and with horny >]>< 

Large horny corns on •' feet; very sensitive 

when walking, especially on stone pavements. 

Longing for acids and pickl< 

Loss of voice from becoming overheated. 

Cannot bear the heat of the Bun; worse from 
exertion in the sun: from overheating mar the 
fire. 

When symptoms reappear they change locality or go 
from one side of the body to the other. 

Aversion to bathing; child cries when washed or 
bathed with cold water: cold bathing causes violent 
headache; causes suppressed menses. 

Whooping-cough: < by being overheated in the sun 
or in a warm room; from cold washing. 

Relations. — Complementary to Squilla. 

Similar to Ipee., Lye., Puis, in gastric complaints. 

Aggravation. — After eating; void bath; acids or 
sour wine; after heat of sun or fire. 

Amelioration. — In the open air; during rest; after 
a warm bath. 

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ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 

Adapted to torpid, phlegmatic persons; the hydro- 
genoid constitution (of Grauvogl). 

Diseases from exposure in damp basements or cel- 
lars (Are., Aran., Tereb.). 

Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the 
action of respiration and circulation, thus producing 
the kevnote of the remedy, viz., when the patient 
coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus 
in the bronchi ; it seems as if much would be expec- 
torated, but nothing comes up. 

Child: clings to those around; wants to be carried; 
cries and whines if anyone touches it; will not let 
you feel the pulse. 

Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with 
nearly all complaints (Nux m.). 

Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat. 

Tongue coated white, with reddened papilte and 
red edges; extraordinary craving for apples (for pickles, 
Ant. c). 

Thirstlessness (Puis.). 

Vomiting: in any position except lying on right 
side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and 
prostration. 

Asphyxia: mechanical, as apparent death from 
drowning; from mucus in bronchi; from impending 
paralysis of lungs ; with drowsiness and coma. 

Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia 
neonatorum. Relieves the " death-rattle " (Taran.). 

Relation. — Similar to Lye. ; but spasmodic motion 
of abe is replaced by dilated nostrils. 

Similar to Veratrum ; both have diarrhoea, colic, 
vomiting, coldness and craving for acids. 

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ANTIMONITM TARTABICUM- 

imilar to [pecac., but more di pom defec- 

tive respiration. 

When lungs seem to tail, patient h epy. 

Cough declines 

For bad efB vaccination when Thuja fails and 

Silica ie qoI indicated. 

Before Silica in dyspnoea from foreign bodies in the 
larynx. 

Children not easily impressed when Ant. tart seei 
indicated in coughs, require Bepar. 

In spring and autumn, when damp weather com- 
mences, coughs of childn worse. 

Aggravation. — In damp, cold _ down 

at night; warmth of room: change of weather in 
spring. 

Amelioration. — Cold open air; sitting upright; 
expectorating. 

APIS. 

Adapted to the strumous constitution; glan< 
larged, indurated: scirrhus or open cancer. 

Women, especially widows ; children and girls who, 
though generally careful, become awkward, and let 
things fall while handling them (Bow). 

Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discour- 
aged, despondent (Puis. , 

Bag-like, puffy swelling under the r the 

eyes, Kali i 

Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lacl 

Fain: bun "!l ;,, !h sort; Buddenly migrating 

from one part to another (Kali bi., Tills.). 

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APIS— (Continued). 

Sudden, shrill, piercing screams from children while 
waking or sleeping (Hellebore). 

Thirstlessness : in anasarca; ascites (Acetic acid, 
but face more waxy and great thirst). 

Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the 
parts: can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and 
when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, 
bloody. 

Affects right side ; enlargement or dropsy of right 
ovary. 

Intermittent fever; chill 3 p.m. (Thuja, 3 a.m. and 

3 P.M.). 

Diarrhoea : of drunkards ; in eruptive diseases, espe- 
cially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary, as 
though anus were wide open (Phos.). 

Relations. — Complementary: Nat. mur. 

Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus. 

Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., 
Hell., failed. 

Aggravation. — After sleeping (Lach.) ; closed, es- 
pecially warmed and heated rooms, are intolerable; 
from getting wet (Rhus), but better from washing or 
moistening the part in cold water. 

Amelioration. — Open air; cold water or cold bath- 
ing; uncovering; pains by coughing, walking or 
changing position ; when sitting erect. 

Ars. and Puis, follow Apis well. 

APOCYNUM. 

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. 
Dropsy of serous membranes ; acute, inflammatory. 

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APOC VMM- ed). 

Dropsy: with thirst, but drinking causes pain or 
fluid lb vomited; most cases uncomplicated with or- 
ganic diseases; alter typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cir- 
rhosis. 

Acute hydrocephalus, with oj.ni sutures; stup 
sight of one eye lost ; constant and voluntary motion 
of one arm and one leg (lefl arm and leg, Bry.); fi 
head projected. 

Amenorrhea in young girls, with bloating or drop- 
sical extension of abdomen and extremil 

Metrorrhagia, continued or paroxysmal flow ; fluid 
or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, 
feeble, when moved; vital de] tressi< .n. fainting, when 
raising head from the pillow. 

Cough short and dry, or deep and loose, during 

pregnancy (Con.). 

Relations. — Similar to Acetic acid, Apis, A 
Cinch., in dropsical affections. 

AB6ENTU1M MKTALLICUM. 

Tall, thin, irritable persons. 

Ailments from abuse of Mercury, 

Constitutional effects of onanism. 

Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears. istachian; 

the structures entering into joints. 

Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing 

Hoarseness; of professional singers, public .speakers 
(Alum., Arum t.). Total loss of voice with profes- 
sional singers. 

Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing 
or coughing. 

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AKGENTUM METALLICUM— ( Continued). 

Laughing excites cough (Phos., Stan.) and produces 
profuse mucus in larynx. 

When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough 
with easy expectoration; gelatinous, viscid mucus, 
looking like boiled starch. 

Great weakness of the chest (Stan.) ; worse left side. 

Alteration in timbre of voice with singers and pub- 
lic speakers (Arum t.). 

Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea; worse 
when using voice, talking or singing. 

Relation. — Follows well after Alum. 

Similar to Stan, in cough excited by laughing. 

Aggravation. — Riding in a carriage; when touched 
or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud. 

ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 

Acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-continued 
mental exertion. 

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, 
dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec). 

Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked 
in lower extremities (Amm. m.). 

Apprehension when ready for church or opera; 
diarrhoea sets in (Gels.). 

Prevents excessive granulation in ulcers. 

Great longing for fresh air (Puis., Sulph.). 

Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw 
beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent. 

Ophthalmia neonatorum : purulent discharge ; 
cornea opaque, ulcerated; lids sore, thick, swollen; 
agglutinated in morning. 

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\im;i;ntim mtkktm- 
Eye strain from sewing, in warm room in op< 

air ( Nat. m.. Rata). 

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he 
thinks himself unobserved. 

( lonvulsions preceded by great r< 

Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after i-wvy meal; 
stomach, as if it would burst with wind : difficult, 
finally air rushes out with great riolene 

Belching accompan U gastric ailment 

Time passes Blowly; impulsive, want- to do thi 
in a hurry: must walk fast; is always hurried; 
anxious, irritable, nervous. 

Urine \ inconsciously day and night 

( treat weakness of lower extremities, with tremblii 
ensation of a splinter in throat when -wallowing 
(Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.). 

Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high n< use 

cough. 

Child is fond ol . but diarrhcea results from 

eating it. 

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if 
wrapped up. 

Diarrhcea as soon as he drinks. 

Relation. — Natrum mur. for the had effect of 
cauterizing with nitrate of silver. 

Hoys' complaints after using tobacco (Ars., V( 

Similar to Nat m., Nit ac., Lach. and Aurum. 

Lye. follows well iii flatulent dyspepsia. 

Aggravation. — Cold food: eating sugar: mental 
exertion. 

Amelioration. — Open air: craves the wind blow* 

iiiLC in his face. 

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ARNICA. 

For the bad effects resulting from mechanical in- 
juries. 

Especially adapted to those who remain long im- 
pressed by even slight mechanical injuries. 

Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, as if 
beaten; traumatic affections of muscles. 

Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from con- 
cussion. 

Concussions and contusions, results of shock or in- 
jury: without laceration of soft parts. 

Nervous, cannot bear pain ; whole body over-sensi- 
tive (Cham., Cof., Ign.). 

Everything on which he lies seems too hard ; complains 
constantly of it and keeps moving from place to place 
in search of a soft spot (the parts rested upon feel sore 
and bruised, Bap. ; must move continually to obtain 
relief from the pain, Rhus.) 

Heat of upper part of body ; coldness of lower. 

The face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool. 

Unconsciousness; when spoken to answers cor- 
rectly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once return 
(falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bap.). 

Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being 
touched or struck by persons coming near him. 

Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort of 
feeling in pelvic region. 

Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, 
extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.). 

Says there is nothing the matter with him. 

Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries; 
from falls, concussion of brain, etc. When suspecting 
exudation of blood, to facilitate absorption. 

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ARNICA— (< 

Apoplexy; lossofconsci j, involuntai 1a- 

t ion from bowels and bladder. 

Paralysis (left-sided | ; pulse fall, 
sighing, mattering. 

of parts after labor ; prei ot-partum 

hemorrhage and puerperal complicatioi 

Retention or incontinence of urine after labor 

Relation. — Complementary * ... 1 1 . per., Kl. 

Arnica follow- well after; Aeon., Apis, Ham.. Ij.- 
Verat. 

In ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal 
vapors, Am. is often indicated. 

In spinal concussion, compare Hypbr. 

Aggravation. — Al rt; when lying down; from 
wine. 

Amelioration. — Prom contact ; motion I 
Kin 

ARSENICUM. 

Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital 
forces : faintii, 

The disposition is : 

'/. Depressing, melancholic, despairing, indifferent 
h. Anxious, fearful, i, full of anguish, 

[rritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed. 

The greater the suffering the greater the anguish, 
restlessness and fear of death. 

Burning pains; tfu affected parti f >"ri> like fire, aa if 
hot coals were applied to parts (Anthr.). 

Burning thirst without special desire to drink: the 
stomach docs not Beem to tolen ause it cannot 

assimilate, cold water: lies lik no in the stomach. 

It is wanted, but he cannot drink it. 

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ARSENICUM— (Co ntinued). 

Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little 
at a time; oats seldom, but much. 

Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want 
to be carried rapidly. 

Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking ; stool scanty, 
dark-colored, offensive, and, whether small or large, 
followed by great prostration. 

Mental restlessness; cannot rest in any place; 
changing his position continually ; wants to go from 
one bed to another, and lies now here and now r there. 

Rapid emaciation, with cold sweat and great debility 
(Tab., Ver.). 

Excessive exhaustion from least exertion. 

Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying 
still ; when he moves he is surprised to find himself 
so weak. 

Fear of death ; thinks it useless to take medicine, 
is surely going to die. 

Symptoms generally worse from one to two o'clock 
in the morning and afternoon. 

Gastric derangements from eating fruits or ice 
cream. 

Skin dry, cold, blue and wrinkled, with cold, clammy 
perspiration. 

Breathing : asthmatic ; must sit or bend forward ; 
springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve 
o'clock ; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation. 

Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, 
whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. 

Relation. — Complementary: All. s., Carbo v., 
Phos. 

Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: chewing 

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ARSENICUM- 

tobacco; alcoholism; seabathing; - soiling; 

dissecting wounds and anthrax poison ; stii ven- 

omous insects. 

Aggravation. — After midnight (1 to 2 a.m. or r..v. 
from cold; cold drink- or food; when lying on 
affected side or with the head low. 

Amelioration. — From heat in general of 

Scr.) except headache, wliidl is telll ] >< Til Y\ ly by COM 

bathing. 

AJtUM TBIPHYLLUM, 

Corvza ; acrid, fluent: nostrils raw. 

Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery dis- 
charge. 
Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside 

nose, ahe. and upper lip. 

Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring 
with the finger into the side of the nose. 

Picks lips until they Meed ; corners of moutl 
cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cundu- 
rango); bites nails until fingers Meed. 

Aphonia; complete, after exposure to northwest 
winds (Aeon., Hep. |. 

Clergyman's sore throat: voice hoarse, uncertain, 
uncontrollable, changing continually ; worse from 
talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, act 
auctioneers. 

Children refuse food and drink on account of sore- 
ness of mouth and throat. 

Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous mem- 
brane; buccal cavity raw and bleeding. 

Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, 
in scarlatina. 



ARUM TRIPHYLLUM— (Continued). 

The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant 
scarlatina and diphtheria. 

Relation. — Useful : after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, 
hoarse, croupy cough ; after Caust. and Hep. in morn- 
ing hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina. 

The higher potencies most prompt and effective. 

ASARUM. 

Nervous, anxious people ; excitable or melancholy. 

Cold " shivers " from any emotion. 

Over sensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk, 
cackling of paper is unbearable. 

Sensation as if ears were plugged up with some for- 
eign substance. 

When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would 
be pressed asunder or outward ; relieved by bathing 
them in cold water. 

Cold air or cold water very pleasant ; sunshine, light 
and wind are intolerable. 

Unconquerable longing for alcohol ; a popular rem- 
edy in Russia for drunkards. 

" Horrible sensation " in the stomach when waking 
in the morning (after a debauch). 

Great faintness and constant yawning. 

Relation. — Similar to : Caust. in modalities. 

Aggravation. — In cold and dry, or clear, fine 
weather (Caust,). 

Amelioration. — Washing face or bathing affected 
parts with cold water; in damp, wet weather 
(Caust). 

Followed by : Bis., Caust., Puis. 

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AUKIM. 
For constitutions broken down by bad effects 

mercury and syphilis. 

Constantly dwi Uing on 

Profound melancholy: feels hateful and quairrel- 
some; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant 

burden : after abuse of nmn-ury. 

Ailment.- from grief, disappointed with long- 

ing for death and suicide. 

Ailment.- from fright, ang< radietion, mortifi- 

cation, vexation, dread, or ddispL Staph. |. 

Oversensitive: lei ttradiction i wrath: to 

pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac, 

( 'aries of the nasal, palatine and i 
ozena, otorrh&a, itid discharge ; pains 

worse al night ; drive to despair. 

Foul breath j in girls at puberty. 

Syphilitic and mercural affections of the boi 

Falling of the hair, especially in syphilitic and mer- 
curial affectioi 

Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching 
or Btraining (Pod., Rhi 

Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melan- 
choly. 

Violent palpitation, anxiety, with congestion of blood 
to head and chest : pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular. 

Fatty degeneration of heart (Phoi 

Relation. — Aurum follows, and is followed well by 
By philinum. 

Aggravation. — In cold air: when getting cold: while 
lying down ; many complaints come on only in winter. 

Amelioration. — In warm air, when growing warm, 
in the morning, and during summer. 

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BAPTISIA. 

For the lymphatic temperament. 

Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition 
of fluids; ulceration of mucous membranes. 

All exhalations and discharges fetid and oliensive ; 
breath, stool, urine, perspiration (Psor.). 

Dysentery of old people; diarrhoea of children, es- 
pecially when very offensive (Carbo v., Psor.). 

Stupor ; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the 
midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers correctly, 
but delirium returns at once, Arnica). 

Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, be- 
sotted, drunken expression. 

Can swallow liquids only ; least solid food gags (can 
swallow liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.). 

Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself 
together ; feels scattered about and tosses about to get 
the pieces together; thought she was three persons, 
could not keep them covered (Petr.). 

In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon 
feel sore and bruised (compare, Arn.). 

Decubitus in typhoid. 

Relation. — Similar to Arn., Gels., Bry., Ars., in 
the early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, 
flushed face, drowsiness and muscular soreness. 

When Arsen. has been improperly given or too often 
repeated in typhoid or typhus. 

After Baptisia, Crotal., Ham., Mt. ac. and Tereb. 
act well in hemorrhage of typhoid and typhus. 

BARYTA CARBONICUM. 

(especially adapted to complaints of first and second 

childhood. 

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BARYTA CARBONICUM- 

irofulons, dwarfish children who do not grow (chil- 
dren who grow too rapidly, ( !alc. nhthal- 
mia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequenl 
of colic; face puffed, bloated; general emaciati 

Children both physically and mentally weak. 

Persons Bubjecl to quinsy, take cold easily; or with 
every, even the Least, cold have an attack of tonsilli 
prone to suppuration | Psor. ). 

Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maid- with 
scant v menses ; deficient heat, always cold and chilly. 

Old, cachetic peopl< tfulous, especially when 

fat : or those who Buffer from gouty complaints. 

Diseases of old men: hypertrophy or induration of 
prostate and testes. 

Swellings and indurations, or incipient Buppuration 
of glands, especially cervical and inguinal. 

Offensive fool sweat ; toes and Bolec 

atleetions after checked t at (compai I'll., 

Psor., Sanic., Sil.). 

Great sensitiven( >ld| Calc.,Cori., Kali <•.. Psor.). 

Relation. — Frequently useful before or after Psor., 
Tub. and Bulph. 

After Bar. c, rs(^i\ will often eradicate the consti- 
tutional tendency to quinsy. 

Incompatible, after Calc. in scrofulous affections. 

Aggravation. — When thinking of his disease (Oxal. 
ac); lying on painful side. 

BELLADONNA. 

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitu- 
tions; persons who are lively and entertaining when 
well, but violent and often delirious when sick. 



BELLADONNA— (Continued). 

Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, 
fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, 
threatened with convulsions. 

Great liability to take cold; sensitive to draughts of 
air, especially when uncovering the head; from hav- 
ing the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding 
in a cold wind (Aeon., Hep., Rhus — takes cold from 
exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.). 

Quick sensation and motion ; eyes snap and move 
quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and 
cease suddenly (Mag. p.). 

Pains usually in short attacks ; cause redness of face 
and eyes ; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids. 

Head hot and painful, face flushed, eyes wild, star- 
ing, pupils dilated, pulse full and bounding (like 
buckshot striking the finger), mucous membrane of 
mouth dry, stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy, 
but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.). 

Convulsions during teething, with fever (without 
fever, Mag. p.)/ 

Rush of blood to head and face. 

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various 
insects (Stram.). 

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from 
them. 

Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike 
and tear things ; breaks into fits of laughter and 
gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attend- 
ants (Stram.). 

Vertigo when stooping, or when rising from stoop- 
ing (Bry.> 

Headache ; congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain 

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BELLADONNA 

and carotids (MeliL); worse from Blight mo- 

tion ot lighl : better by leaning head forward or pi 

ing with hand. 

Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen 
would issue from the vulva; standing and 
i : worse mornings Lill., M • , S 

Relations. — < lomplementary, ( 'ales 

Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often 
required to complete a cure. 

similar to Aeon., Bry., Ci a., Hyos., Op., 

am. 

Aggravation. — From touch, motion, noise, draught 
of air, looking at bright, shining obj< 
after 8 p.m.; night, after midnight; while drinki 
uncovering the bead ; summer sun. 

Amelioration. — Rest; Btanding or >itt : a 
warm room. 

BENZOIC A (ID. 

A gouty, rheumatic dial d on a gonor- 

rheal or syphilitic patient 

Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga'; affects all the 
joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion: no- 
dosities. 

Urine dark, and tfu I t highly 

Eneuresis nocturna of delicate children: strong 
characteristic odor uric acid. 

Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea. 

Diarrhea of children : white, offensive, exhausting 
liquid stools: urine offensive and of a deep 'red color. 

Cough, with secretion of green mucus (Xatr. 8.); 
extreme weariness, lassitude. 
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BENZOIC ACID— (Continued). 

Relation. — Similar to Cop., Nitr., Fer., Thuja, es- 
pecially in oliguresis after Mtr. has failed. 

Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of 
Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea. 

Incompatible : wine, which aggravates urinary, 
gouty and rheumatic affections. 

BERBERIS. 

The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. 

Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in 
renal region ; worse when sitting and lying. 

Burning and soreness in region of kidneys. 

Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of 
the urinary organs. 

Colic from gall-stones. 

Bilious colic, followed by jaundice; clay-colored 
stools ; fistula in ano, with bilious symptoms and itch- 
ing of the parts ; short cough and chest complaints, 
especially after operations for fistulae (Cal. p., Sil.). 

Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following 
course of ureter into bladder and urethra (Tab. — r. 
kidney, Lye). 

Renal colic, and worse left side (Tab. — either side, 
with urging and strangury, Canth.). 

Bubbling sensation in kidneys (Med.). 

Urine : greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy mucus ; 
transparent, reddish or jelly-like sediment. 

Movement brings on or increases urinary complaints. 

Relation. — Similar to Canth., Lye, Tab., in renal 
colic. 

Aggravation. — Motion, walking or carriage-riding. 

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BORAX. 

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complai 

Great anxiety from downward motion; whenlayii 
the child down on a couch or in the crib; when ro< 
ing, dancing, swinging; going down stairs or rapidly 
down hill; horseback-riding (San 

Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the Blight- 
noise or an unusual Bharp sound. 

Aphtha: in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the 
cheek; easily bleeding when eating or touched; \ 
vents child from nursing; with lint mouth, dryness ami 
thirst (Ars.); cracked and bleeding tongue: salivation, 
especially during dentition. 

Aphthous sore mouth: is worse from touch; eating 
salty or sour food; of old people, often from plat 

teeth. 

Leucorrhoea : profuse, albuminous, starchy, with 

sensation as if warm water were flowing down; for 
two week- between the catamenia (compare, Bov.). 

Skin; unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calend., 
Hep., Sil.). 

Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; Bplits, sticks 
gether at the tips: if these hunches are cut oft, they 
form again, cannot be combed smooth; eyelae 

turn inward and inflame the eyes; tendency to •• wild 
hairs" (Psor., Lye). 

Relation. — Borax follows. Calc, Psor., Bulph. 

Is followed by Ars.. Bry., Lye. Phos., Sil. 

Incompatible; should not be used before or after 
acetic acid, vinegar, wine. 

Aggravation. — Downward motion ; from sudden, 

slight noises : smoking, which may bring on diarrhoea ; 

damp, cold weather. 

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BORAX — ( Continued). 

Amelioration. — Pressure ; holding painful side 
with hand. 



BO VISTA. 

Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or 
moist. 

Adapted to old maids ; with palpitation. 

Stammering children. 

Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes 
very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.). 

Unusually deep impression on finger, from using 
blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc. 

Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc, 
Lach.). 

Sweat in axilla, smells like onions. 

Hemorrhage after extraction of teeth (Ham.); 
wounds; epistaxis. 

Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands 
and feet. 

Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hands 
(Apis). 

Menses : flow only at night, not in the daytime (only 
during day, cease lying, Caust., Lil.); occasional show 
every few days between periods (Bor.); every two 
weeks dark and clotted. 

Relations. — Compare Calc. and Sep. in menstrual 
irregularities. 

Bovista antidotes, effects of external applications of 
tar. 

When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in 
urticaria. 

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BROMIUM. 

It acts best on persons with light-blue eyts 9 J 
light eyebrows, fidr, delicaU skin; Monde, red- 

scrofuloti- girls, 

nsation of cobweb on die face | Bor., <rraph.). 

Fan-like motion of ake nasi (Ant. t.. Lj 
ilors Buffer with asthma "on shore." 

Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of 
glands (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, b 

Diphtheria, beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx. 
and extending upward-: chest i>"u>-< running upwards* 

Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattli 
of mucus during cough, hut no choking, as in EEepar. 

( Iroupy symptoms with hoar vhooping- 

COUgh. 

Phyaometra; emission of Batus from the vagina 
(Lye). 

Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Khus., 

Bulph.). 

Relations. — Compare: in croup and croupy aft 
tions, Chlor., Ebp., Iod., Spong. 

Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed. 

Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Pin 
Hep., Spong. ; especially in relapses after Iodum. 

The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is, 
the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the 
black-eyed patients. 

BRYONIA. 

Is best adapted to persons of a gouty or rheumatic 
diathesis ; prone to so-called bilious attacks. 

Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be vehe- 
ment and angry : dark or black hair, dark complex- 

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BRYONIA— (Continued). 

ions, linn muscular fibre; dry, nervous, slender peo- 
ple (Hux), 

One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is, aggra- 
vation from any motion. 

Ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger (Col., 
Staph.): violence, with chilliness and coldness; after 
anger chilly, but with head hot and face red (Aur.). 

Pains; stitching, tearing, worse at night; aggra- 
vated by motion, relieved by absolute rest, and lying 
on painful side. 

Constant motion of left arm and leg (Apoc, Hell.). 

Delirium ; talks constantly about his business ; de- 
sire to get out of bed and go home (Act., Ilyos.). 

Headache : when stooping, as if brain would burst 
through forehead; from ironing (Sep.) ; on coughing; 
in morning after rising or when first opening the eyes ; 
commencing in the morning, gradually increasing 
until evening; from constipation. 

Vicarious menstruation, nosebleed when menses 
should appear (Phos.). 

Patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness. 

Pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, re- 
lieved by eructation. 

Constipation : inactive, no inclination ; stool large, 
hard, dark, dry, as if burnt. 

Mammce heavy , of a stony hardness ; pale, but hard ; 
hot and painful ; must support the breasts (Phyt.). 

Great thirst for large quantities, at long intervals. 

Complaints : when warm weather sets in, after cold 
days ; from cold drinks or ices in hot weather; after tak- 
ing cold or getting hot in summer; from exposure to 
draft, cold wind (Aeon., Hep.); suppressed discharges. 

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BRYONIA- ud). 

Desires things immediately which are not to be had, 
or which when offered are refused. 

Relations. — ( Somplementary : Alumina, R I 
Similar to Bell, for hasty speech and hasty drinking. 
To T van. bulb, in pleuritic or rheumatic pains of ch< 
After Wry.: Alum., Kali <•.. \u\. Phos., Rh 

Sulpn. 

Aggravation. — Motion, exertion, touch; cannot -it 

up, gets fainl or sick or both; warmth, warm food; 

suppr< Bsed dischai any kind. 

Amelioration. — Lying, ially on painful side 

(Puis.): rest; cold, eating cold things. 

CACTUS. 

Sanguineous otagestions in pen plethoric 

habit (Aeon;). 

Pear of death ; believes the di incurabL 

Hemorrhage; from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, 
bladder (Crotal., Millef., Phoe 

Headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex; 
climacteric. 

Headache and neuralgia ; congestion, periodic, right- 
sided; severe, throbbing, pulsating pain. 

Whole body feels as it' caged, each wire being 
twisted tighter and tighter. 

Constriction; of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rec- 
tum, uterus, vagina; often caused or brought on by 
the slightest contact. 

Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by 
an iron hand. 

Pains everywhere : darting, springing like chain 

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CACTUS— (Continued). 

lightning, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only 
to be again renewed. 

Menstrual flow ceases when lying down (Caust.). 

Palpitation: day and night; worse when walking 
and lying on left side; at approach of menses. 

Fever paroxysm returns at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. 

Relation. — Compare Dig., Gels., Lach., Tab. 

CALCAREA. 

Leucophlegmatic, blonde hair, light complexion, 
blue eyes, fair skin. 

Psoric constitutions ; pale, weak, timid, easily tired 
when walking. 

Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy. 

Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat 
easily and take cold readily in consequence. 

Large heads and abdomens ; fontanelles and sutures 
open. 

Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pil- 
low far around (Sil., Sanic). 

Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and 
neck, or on chest and upper part of body (Sil.). 

Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic 
head sweats. 

During either sickness or convalescence, great long- 
ing for eggs; aversion to open air; sensitive to cold, 
damp air ; great liability to take cold. 

Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly. 

Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long last- 
ing ; with subsequent amenorrhcea and chlorosis, with 
menses scanty or suppressed. 

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CALCAREA— ed). 

Women; menses too early, too profuse ; feet habitu- 
ally cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stock- 
ings; continually cold in bed. 

Tin- least mental excitement causes profi trn 

of menstrua] flow (Sulph.). 

Fears she will lose her reason or that people will ob- 
serve her mental confusion. 

Lung diseases of tall, Blender, rapidly growing 
youth; oftener the guide to the constitutional remedy 
than Phosphorus. 

Diseases arising from defective assimilation; im- 
perfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or 
stand; children hav^ no disposition to walk ami will 
not try. 

Longing for fresh air, which inspires, benef 
strengthens ( Puis., Sulph. }. 

Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and 

painful to pressure. 

TJrsemic or other diseases brought on by standing 

on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing 

in cold water. 

Feels better in every way when constipated. 

Painless hoarseness. 

Desire to be magnetized (Phos.). 

Relations. — Complementary: to Pell., which is the 
acute of Calc. 

Calc. acts best: before, Lye, Xux.. Phos., Sil. 

It follows; Nit. ac, Puis., Sulph. (especially if pupils 
are dilated). 

According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used be- 
fore Nit. ac. and Sulph. ; may produce unnecessary 

complications. 

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CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. 

For persons eenemic and dark complexion, dark hair 
and eyes. 

During first and second dentition of scrofulous 
children. 

Children : emaciate, unable to stand; slow in learn- 
ing to walk (Sil.) ; sunken, flabby abdomen. 

Rachitis : cranial bones thin and brittle; fontanelles 
and sutures remain open too long, or close and reopen; 
delayed or complicated teething. 

Spine weak, disposed to curvatures ; unable to sup- 
port body; neck weak, unable to support head (Abrot.). 

Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly; tendency 
of bones to soften or spine to curve (Ther.). 

Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., 
Phos. ac). 

Involuntary sighing (Ign.). 

Xon-union of bones; promotes callous (Symp.). 

Rheumatism of cold weather ; getting well in Spring 
and returning in Autumn. 

Headache of school-girls (iSTat. m., Psor.). 

At every attempt to eat, colic pains in abdomen. 

Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms 
(Berb.); lack of animal heat; cold sweat and general 
coldness of body. 

Relations. — Complementary : Ruta. 

Similar to; Carbo an., Cal. fluor., Calc, Fluor, ac, 
Kali, phos., Sil.; to Psor. in debility remaining after 
acute disease 

Acts best : before Sulph., Iod., Psor. 

Aggravation.— Exposure to damp, cold, changeable 
weather; east winds; melting snow; mental exertion. 

Amelioration.— In summer; warm, dry atmosphere. 

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CAMPHOR A. 

Pain better white thinking of it (worse, Helon., Ox. 
ac.). 

Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable. 

Exceedingly sensitiv< Id air. 

Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of I 
cold, face pale, blue, lips livid, profound prostration. 

Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be cov- 
ered; throws off all coverings 8 

Skin of whole body painfully sensitive to slightest 
touch. 

Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea; 
cold and pointed: anxious and restless; skin and 
breath cold. 

In firsl stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; 
re, long-lasting chill | V 

Great coldness of skin with Budden and compl* 
prostration; often a remedy in congestive chill ; per- 
nicious intermittent (Verat. ). 

Relations. — Camphor antidotes nearly every vege- 
table medicine; also tobacco, fruits containing prue 
acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in 
the sickroom in its crude form. 

Compare: Carbo VBG., Opium, Verat. 

Amelioration. — When thinking of existing com- 
plaint: warm air: drinking cold water. 

CAXTHARIS. 

Ovcrscnsitivencss of all parts. 

Pain ; raw, sore, burning in every part of body, in- 
ternally and externally: with extreme weakness. 
Disgust for everything : drink, food, tobacco. 

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C ANTH ARIS— ( Continued). 

Drinking- even small quantities of water increases 
pain in the bladder. 

Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops 
at a time, which is mixed with blood. 

Intolerable urging, before, during, and after urina- 
tion. 

Burning, cutting pains in urethra during mictu- 
rition. 

Stool : passage of white or pale, red, tough mucus, 
like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of 
blood (Colch.). 

Skin : vesicular, erysipelas ; vesicles all over body 
which are sore and suppurating. 

Erythema from exposure to sun's rays (sunburn). 

Burns before blisters form and when they have 
formed. If the skin be unbroken, apply an alcoholic 
solution of any potency and cover with cotton; this 
will promptly relieve pain and often prevent vesication. 
If skin be broken, use in boiled or distilled water, and 
in each case give potency internally. 

CALENDULA. 

Traumatic affections : to secure union by first in- 
tention and prevent suppuration. 

In all cases of loss of soft parts when union cannot 
be affected by means of adhesive plaster. 

External wounds with or without loss of substance ; 
torn and jagged looking wounds; post-surgical opera- 
tions ; to promote healthy granulation and prevent ex- 
cessive suppuration and disfiguring scars. 

Traumatic and idiopathic neuroma (Cepa) ; neuritis 

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CALENDULA— (< 

from lacerated wounds (Hyp 1 from loss 

of blood and excessive pain. 

Rapture ofmtu tendons; wounds penetrating 

articulation- with loss of synovial fluid. 

Wounds: with sudden pain during febrile heat; 
constitutional tendency to erysi] »ld. neg 

ofiensr 

Ulcere : irritable, inflamed, sloughing, vari< 
painful as if beaten (Am.): e don of pus. 

Calendula is aim cific for clean, surgical cuts 

or lacerated wounds, to prevent i ippuration. 

Relations. — Complementary: Eepar, Balic ac. 

Similar to: Am. in traumatism without laceration 
of soft tissue. 

Hyper, in injuries to parts rich in sentient w 
where pain i- and out of all proportion 

injury. 

Bymp., ("ale. | do ►>.. for non-union ofboi 

Rhus, Ruta, strains <>r injuri 

Salic, ac, to prevent I ippuration. 

Aets as well in potency as in tincture applied locally, 
and may he administered internally at the same time. 

CANNABIS ENDICA. 

Very forgetful : forgets his last words and ideas: he- 
gins a sentence, forgets what he intends to speak: in- 
ability to recall any thought or event on account of 
other thoughts crowding his brain (Anac. Lac can.). 

Constantly theorizing. 

Laughs immoderately at every trifling word spoken 
to him. 

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CANNABIS INDICA— (Omtfnwd). 

Full of fun and mischief, then perhaps moaning and 
crying. 

Groat apprehension of approaching death. 

Sensation as if calvarium was opening and shutting 
(Actea.). 

Delirium tremens ; excessive loquacity ; exaggeration 
of time and distance. 

Time seems too long ; a few seconds seem ages. 

Distance seems immense; a few rods seem miles. 

Relation. — Compare Bell., Hyos., Stram. 



CANNABIS SATIVA. 

Sensation as of drops of water falling on or from 
single parts; on the head, from the anus, stomach, 
heart. 

Obstinate constipation, causing retention of the 
urine. 

Contraction of fingers after a sprain. 

Dislocation of patella on going up stairs. 

Dyspnoea or asthma, where the patient can only 
breathe by standing up. 

Choking in swallowing, things go down " the wrong 
way." 

Acute stage of gonorrhoea. 

Cannot walk with legs close together, it hurts the 
urethra. 

Tearing pain along the urethra in a zigzag direc- 
tion. 

Relations. — Similar to; Canth., Gels., Petros. in 
early stages of specific urethritis. 

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CAPSICUM. 

Persons with light hair, bl bat 

stout, and plethoric habit. 

Phlegmatic di lack of reactive 6 

tally with fat peo] rily exhausted; indol 

dreads any kind of exercise; persons inclined b 

jovial. \ I y at trilh -. 

Children; dread open air; always chilly; i ry, 

clumsy, tat. dirty, and disinclined to work or think. 

Homesickness the indolent, melancholic), with 

red cheeks and 

Burning and Bmarting Bensati ayenne 

pepper in tin-Mat and other pa 

Tonsillitis: with burnii _ pain; i 

Boreness ; hroai with I ; inflan 

dark, red, swollen. 

The burning spasmodic constriction and other pai 
war leghUUion* 

Painful Bwelling behind the ear | m; 
sensitive to touch. 

Desires to be let alone; wants to lie down and - 

Every stool is followed by thirst and every drink 
by shuddering. 

Every chill is attended with thirst, and every drink 
with shuddering. 

As the coldness of the body inc* also d< - 

the ill-humor. 

Pain in distant parts on coughing (Madder, km 
legs, ears, head, thro;. 

Relations. — Compare: Apis, Bell., Bry., Calad., 
Tils. 

The constricting, burning, smarting pains differen- 
tiate from Apis and Belladonna. 

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CARBO ANIMALIS. 

Headache : as if a tornado in head; as if head had 
been blown to pieces; has to sit up at night and hold 
it together. 

Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous 
plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility. 

Circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks 
to a minimum ; Cyanosis. 

Glands : indurated, swollen, painful ; in neck, ax- 
illae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, 
burning (Con.). 

Benignant suppurations change into ichorous or 
malignant conditions. 

Easily strained from lifting, even small weights; 
straining and overlifting easily produce great de- 
bility. 

Joints weak ; easily sprained by slight exertion. 

Aversion lo open, dry, cold air. 

After appearance of menses so weak she can hardly 
speak (Alum., Coc). 

Hearing confused ; cannot tell from what direction 
a sound comes. 

A stitching pain remains in chest after recovery 
from pleurisy. 

Menstruation, leucorrhcea, diarrhoea are all exhaust- 
ing (Ars.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Calc. phos. 

Similar to; Bad., Brom., Phos., Cepa, Sulph. 

Carbo Animalis is often useful after bad effects 
from spoiled fish and decayed vegetables (Carbo v., 
Cepa). 

Aggravation, — After shaving ; slightest touch ; 

after midnight. 

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CABBO VEGETABILIS. 

For the bad efl hausting di 

in young or old (( 'inch.. Phos., I '-• 

Ailments: from quinine, especially suppressed in- 
termittent; abuse of mercur -alt meats; Bpoi 
fish, meats or fats; from getting overheated. 

Weak] i mory and slow thought. 

Epistaxie in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from 
rtion : face pale b as well r a hen 

rhag 

Bippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, _ 
ish, cold with cold >v 

L< i teeth, easily-bleeding s 

Weak d n; Bimplesl food i 

accumulation i in Btomach and inl 

eating or drinkii] »n as if stomach would 

bure 

Eructations give temporary reli 

Diseases of the venous Bystem predominate (Sulph.); 
Bymptoms of imperfect oxidati< i 

Deficient capillary circulation causes blu< 
skin and coldness of extremities; vital pow< 
exhausted ; desin • istantly fani 

Awakens often from cold limbs and suffers from 
cold knees at night. 

Patients crave things that make them Bick; old 
topers crave whiskey or brandy ; want clothing lo 
around abdomen. 

Frequent, involuntary, cadaverous-smelling stools, 
followed by burning. 

In the last stages of disease, with copious cold 

sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy 

may save a life. 

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CARBO VEGETABILIS— (Cbntfrwed). 

Relations. — Complementary: Kali carb. 

Want of susceptibility to well-selected remedies (Op.). 

Compare: Cinch, in neglected pneumonia, especially 
in " old topers." 

Opium, Avith lack of reaction after well-selected 
remedies. 

Phos. in easily-bleeding ulcers. 

Puis., bad effects from fat food and pastry. 

Sulpb., acrid-smelling menstrual flow and erysipelas 
of mammae. 

CARBOLIC ACID. 

The potencies are made with alcohol (an exception 
to the rule of preparing acids). 

Pains are terrible ; come suddenly, last a short time, 
disappear suddenly (Bell). 

Profound prostration, collapse; surface pale and 
bathed in cold sweat. 

Dull, heavy, frontal headache, as if a rubber band 
were stretched tightly over the forehead, from temple 
to temple (Plat., Sulph.). 

When burns tend to ulceration and ichorous dis- 
charge. 

Putrid discharges from mouth, nose, throat, nostrils, 
rectum and vagina (Psor., Pyrog.). 

Malignant scarlatina and variola. 

Lacerated wounds with blunt instruments; bones 
bare, crushed, with much sloughing of soft parts (Cal- 
end.). 

Longing for whiskey and tobacco (Asar.). 

Vomiting : of drunkards, in pregnancy, seasick- 
ness, cancer; of dark, olive-green fluid. 

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CARBOLIC ACID— d). 

Dysentery: fluid mucus, like scrapings of mucous 
membranes and great tenesmus Canth.); diarrhoea; 
stools thin, involuntary, black, of an intolerable odor. 

Constipation, with horribly breath. 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, copious, fetid, green. 

Relations. — Compare K ! in burns; ulcers 

with unhealthy, offensive discharg 

Carbolic acid is antidoted by dilute cider vinegar, 
either externally, or wheu acid has been swallowed ac- 
cidentally or taken for suicidal purpofi 

C AULOPHYLL 131. 

Rheumatism of women, especially of -mall joints; 
erratic, pains changing pla ery tew minu 

(Puis.); painful stiffness of affected joinl 

Pains arc intermittent, paroxysmal, spasmodic. 

Chorea, hysteria or epilepsy at puberty, during 
establishment of menstrual function. 

Leucorrhcea, acrid, exhausting; upper eyelids heavy. 
has to raise them with the fing< els.); with 

"moth spots" on forehead (Sep.): in little girls 
(Calc). 

Habitual abortion from uterine debility. 

Spasmodic rigid os, delays labor : needle-like prick- 
ing pains in cervix. 

Labor pains short, irregular, spasmodic ; tormenting, 
useless pains in beginning of labor (Act) : no progress 
made. "Will correct deranged vitality and produce 
efficient pains. 

Hemorrhage, after hasty labor : passive, after abor- 
tion (Sec, Thlaspi). 

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CAULOPHYLLUM— {Continued). 

Lochia protracted : great atony; passive, oozing for 
days from relaxed vessels (Sec). 

Relations. — Similar to : Act, Bell., Lill., Puis., 
Thlaspi, Vibur. 

Labor pains of Puis, similar, but mental condition 
opposite. 

Similar to Sep., " moth patches" and uterine irregu- 
larities. 

CAUSTICUM. 

Adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre ; 
weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow com- 
plexion; subject to affections of respiratory and urin- 
ary tracts. 

Children with dark hair and eyes, delicate, sensi- 
tive ; skin prone to intertrigo during dentition (Lye). 
Children slow in learning to walk (Cal. p.). 

Ailments from long-lasting grief and sorrow ; from 
loss of sleep, night watching (Coc, Ign.). 

Constipation : frequent, ineffectual desire ; stool 
passes better when person is standing ; impeded by hem- 
orrhoids ; tough and shining, like grease. 

Urine ; involuntary, when coughing, sneezing, blow- 
ing the nose (Puis., Squil., Ver.). 

Cough, with inability to expectorate, sputa must be 
swallowed; relieved by swallow of cold water. 

At night, unable to get an easy position or lie still a 
moment. 

Must move constantly, but motion does not relieve. 

Cannot cover up too warmly, but warmth does not 
relieve. 

Cicatrices, especially burns, scalds, freshen up, be- 

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CAUSTICUM— Continued). 
come sore again; old injuries reopen; patiei 
"they never have been well since that burn." 

Paralysis, of single parts ; vocal organs, tongue, 
lids, face, extremities, bladder ; generally of right side 

Drooping of upper eyelids ; cannot keep them 
(( lels., Q-raph.). 

Intense sympathy \'<>r sufferings of otlu 

Rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flex- 
ors and ptiflhess of (he joints; tension and shortening 

of muscles. 

Warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated; bleeding 
easily, exuding moisture; small, all over the body; on 
eyelids, face ; on the n< 

Relations. — Complementary : IVtros. 

[ncompatible : Phos. Musi not be used befor< 

after Phos. : always di be acids : coffi 

Compare; Ant. r.. Ai;.\.. Albs., Cbpa, Gbls., Lyc, 
Nat. c. 

Causticum antidotes paralysis from lend poisoning 
(bad effects of holding type in mouth of compo 
and abuse of Merc, or Sulph. in scahies. 

It affects the right side most prominently. 

Aggravation. — In clear, fine weather; coming from 
the air into a warm room (Bry.) : cold air, especially 
draught of cold air; on becoming cold ; from getting 
wet or bathing. 

Amelioration. — In damp, wet weather; warm air. 

CHA3I03IILLA. 

Persons, especially children, with light-brown hair, 
nervous, excitable temperament: oversensitive from 
use or abuse of coffee or narcotics. 

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CHAMOMILLA— (Continued). 

Children, new-born and during period of dentition. 

Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to de- 
spair (Cotf.): snappish, cannot return a civil answer. 

Child exceedingly irritable, fretful ; quiet only when 
carried ; impatient, wants this or that and becomes an- 
gry when refused, or, when offered, petulantly rejects 
it (Bry., Cina) ; " too ugly to live." 

Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have 
what he wants. 

Patient cannot endure any one near him ; is cross, 
cannot bear to be spoken to ; averse to talking, answers 
peevishly. 

One check red, the other pale. 

Oversensitive to open air ; great aversion to wind. 

Complaints from anger, especially chill and fever. 

Labor pains : spasmodic, distressing, wants to get 
away from them; tearing down the legs ; press upward. 

Diarrhoea : from cold, anger or chagrin ; during denti- 
tion. 

Stool green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs 
and spinach ; hot, very offensive, like rotten eggs. 

Convulsions of children from nursing after a fit of 
anger in mother. 

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at 
night, compel him to walk about. 

Sleepy, but cannot sleep. 

Burning of soles at night, puts feet out of bed 
(Puis., Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary ; Belladonna, in dis- 
eases of children. 

In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine 
in complaints of children. 

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GHAMOMHiliA— (Omenta 
: Bell., Bor., Bry., Coff., Pi 
Mental calmness eontra-indicates Chamamilla. 
Aggravation. — By heat, anger, evening before 
midnight. 

Amelioration. — From being carried ; fastii 
warm, wet weather. 

< HELIDOMUM. 

Persona of light complexion, blondes; thin, spare, 
irritable; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal 
complaints (Pod.). 

Constant pain under the lower and inner. angle of 

right scapula (under the left, Sang.). 

Ailments brought on or renewed by chang 

weather (Mer.). All lessen alter dinner. 

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with 
sive lachr ymation ; tear- fairly gush nut (Rhus . 

Constipation: -tool. hard, round halls (Opium, 
Plumb.). 

Diarrhoea at night; Blimy, light-gray; bright-yel- 
lowish; brown or white, watery, pasty; involuntary. 
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea. 

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks remarkably yellow. 
Yellow-gray color of fix skin ; united skin. 

Hepatic diseases: jaundice, pain in right shoulder. 

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers, with a history of liver 
disease. 

Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulder- 
blade. 

Relations. — Chelidonium antidotes the abuse of 
Bry., especially in hepatic complaints. 

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CHELIDONIUM— (Cb??^m*ed). 

Compare; Acon.,Bry.,Lyc»,Nux, Sang., Sep., Sulph. 
Arsen. follows well, and will often be required to 
complete the euro. 

CINCHONA. 

For stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once ro- 
bust, which have become debilitated, "broken down" 
from exhausting discharges. 

Ailments : from loss of vital fluids, especially hem- 
orrhages or excessive lactation; of malarial origin, 
with marked periodicity. 

After climacteric, with profuse hemorrhages ; acute 
diseases often result in dropsy. 

Pains: drawing or tearing; in every joint, all the 
bones. Periosteum, as if strained, sore all over; 
obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives 
relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually in- 
crease to a great height. 

Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise ; 
sensitive to touch, to pain, to draughts of air. 

Unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor; < after 3 
a.m. ; wakens early. 

Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels, belch- 
ing gives no relief (belching relieves, Carbo v.). 

Colic : at a certain hour each day ; periodical, from 
gall-stones; worse at night and after eating; better 
bending double (Col.). 

Hemorrhages of mouth, nose or bowels; long con- 
tinued ; longing for sour things. 

Disposition to hemorrhage from every orifice of the 
body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, gen- 
eral coldness and sometimes convulsions. 

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CINCHONA— 

Pace pale, hippocratic . sunken and surroui 

by blue margins ; pale, sickly expr 
while aursing the child. 

Pains are aggravated by slightesl touch, but i 
liorated by hard pressure. 

Intermittent fever; paroxysm antici] rom two 

to three hours each attack (Chin, e *urn ev< 

en or fourteen days ; never at night 
fusely all over on being covered, or dui s ep. 

Relations. — Complementary : Ferrum. 

Cinchona is incompatible ati S< len. 

Da useful in bad effects from excessive tea-drinking 
or abuse of chamomile tea, when hemorrhi dts. 

Aggravation. — From slightest touch; draught 
every other day; mental emotion; bending double. 

CICUTA. 

Women subject to epileptic ami choreic convul- 
sions; spasms of teething children. 

Convulsions, with frightful distortions of limbs and 
whole body: with loss of consciousn 

Puerperal convulsions : frequent suspension of 
breathing for a few moments, as it" dead; upper part 
of the body most affected; continue after delivery. 

Epilepsy: with swelling o\' the Btomach, as from 
violent spasms of the diaphr aming; red or 

bluish face; lockjaw, loss ^\ y consciousness and 
tortion of the limbs ; frequent, during the night; re- 
curring, first at short, then at long intervals. 

When reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or 
down or disappear (Coc). 



CICUTA— (Continued). 

During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums; 
compression of the jaws as in lockjaw. 

Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; 
for coal or charcoal ; child eats them with apparent 
relish (Alum.). 

Sutter violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, 
3 3 which cause jerkings of the parts. 

Injurious effects from concussions of the brain and 
spine (Hyper.). 

Relations. — Compare; Hydr. ac, Hyper., Nux, 
Strych. 

Aggravation. — From tobacco smoke (Ign.). 

CrNTA. 

Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irri- 
table, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying 
gives no relief; does not want to be touched ; cannot 
bear you to come near it ; averse to caresses ; desires 
many things, but rejects everything offered (compare, 
Ant. t., Bry., Cham.). 

Constantly digging and boring at the nose; picks 
the nose all the time ; itching of nose ; rubs nose on 
pillow. 

Children, suffering from worms; pitiful weeping 
when awake, starts and screams during sleep ; grind- 
ing of teeth. 

Face is pale ; sickly w r hite and bluish appearance 
around mouth ; sickly, with dark rings under the eyes. 

Canine hunger ; hungry soon after a full meal ; 
craving for BWeets and different things; refuses mo- 
ther's milk. 

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CIXA — I d). 

Child is afraid to speak or movi f bringing 

an a paroxysm of coughing (Bry.). 

Urine; turbid when passed, turns milky and semi- 
Bolid after standing; involuntary. 

Relations. — Compare; Ant. i :.. Ant. t.. 
('ham., Bjlbos., Sil., in irritability of childi 

In pertussis, after Drosera has relieved T 
symptoms. 

Eas cured aphonia from ex] when Aeon., 

Phos. and Bpong. had Bailed. 

I- frequently to be thought of, in children, as an 
epidemic remedy, when adults require 

Bantonine sometime b in worm affections when 

Cina seems indicated, but fails, 

COCA. 

For persons who are wearing out under the ph 
ical and mental -train of a busy lit**: who suffer from 
exhausting nerves and brains. 

Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion ; bashful, 

timid, ill at ease in society. 

Sad, irritable; delights in solitude and obscurity. 
Want of breath, in those engaged in athletic sports; 

shortness of breath, in old people; in those who 
tobacco and whiskey to excess. 

Hemoptysis, with oppression of chest and dyspn< 

Bleepy, but can find no rest anywhere. 

Violent palpitation from incarcerated flatus (Arg. 
n., Xux). 

Bad effects from mountain climbing or ballooning 
(Ars.); of stimulants, alcohol, tobacco. 

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COCA— {Continued). 

Prevents caries of tooth. 

Relations. — Compare; Stram., patient desires light 
and company; Coca, desires darkness and solitude. 

COCCULUS. 

For women and children with light hair and eyes, 
who suffer severely during menstruation and preg- 
nancy. 

Nausea or vomiting/row riding in carriage, boat or rail 
road car, or even looking at a boat in motion ; sea-sickness 

Sick headache from carriage, boat or train riding. 

Diseases peculiar to drunkards. 

Loss of appetite, with metallic taste (Mer.). 

Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. i.). 

Great lassitude of the whole body; it requires exer- 
tion to stand firmly; feels too weak to talk loudly. 

Bad effects from loss of sleep and night watching ; 
feel weak if they lose but one hour's sleep ; convul- 
sions after loss of sleep. 

Trembling of arms and legs ; from excitement, ex- 
ertion or pain. 

Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed; or by 
motion of the carriage (Bry.). 

Sensation in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on 
every movement, as of sharp stones. 

During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she 
is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs 
(Alum., Carbo an.). 

Leucorrhcea in place of menses or between periods; 
like the washings of meat; like serum, ichorous, 
bloody; during pregnancy. 

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CO( ( IMS 

annot b< ntradiction ; easily offends ery 

trifle makefl him angry; speaka hastily 

WIh'h fever assui il< >w, •• sn< aking," 

form, with vertigo; with disposition to 

Relations. — Compare [on. and Nux v.. in chorea 
and paralytic symptoms; Ant. !.. 

Aggravation. — Elating, drinking, sleeping, smok- 
ing, talking; carriage riding, motion or swing 
ship; rising up durii Lancy. 

COFFEA. 

Oversensitivenesa ; all tl _ ht, 

hearing, smell, taste, touch (Bell., Opiui 

Unusual activity of mind and body. 

Full of ideas ; quick to act, do sleep on tins account 

Ailments, the bad • sudden emotions or 

pleasurable Burpris _ or bad 

weeping from delight. 

Pains are fell intensely; Beem aim pportable, 

driving patient to despair 

Sleepless, wide-awake condition ; impossible b 
the eyes; physical excitement through mental exalta- 
tion. 

Headache : from over-mental exertion, thinking, 
talking; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain 
(Ign., Nux) : as it' brain were torn or dashed to pie* 
worse in open air. 

Hasty eating and drinking (Bell., Hep 

Toothache; intermittent, jerking, and relieved by 
holding ice-water in the mouth, but returns when 
water becomes warm (Bry., Puis.). 

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COPFEA— (Continued). 

Relations. — Compare; Acon., Cham., Ign., Sulph. 
Aggravation. — Sudden mental emotion ; excessive 
joy; cold, open air; narcotic medicines. 

COLCHICUM. 

Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; per- 
sons of robust vigorous constitution; diseases of old 
people. 

External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, con- 
tact, make him almost beside himself (Nux). 

Ailments from grief or misdeeds of others (Staph.). 

Pains are drawing, tearing, pressing ; light or super- 
ficial during warm weather; affect the bones and 
deeper tissues, when air is cold ; pains go from left to 
right (Lach.). 

Smell painfully acute ; nausea from the odor of cooking 
food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat; bad effects from 
night watching (Coc). 

Aversion to food ; loathing even the sight or smell 
of it. 

The abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feel- 
ing as if it would burst. 

Autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels con- 
tain white shreddy particles in large quantities ; white 
mucus; " scrapings of intestines " (Carb. ac). 

Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion. 

Arthritic pains in joints ; patient screams with pain 
on touching a joint or stubbing a toe. 

Relations. — Compare; Bry. in rheumatic gout with 
serous effusions. 

Often cures in dropsy after Apis and Arsen. fail. 

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COLCHICUM— ed 

Aggravation. — Mental emotion or exhaustion ; 
fects of hard study; odor of cooking food. 

Motion: if the patient lies perfectly still, the dispo- 
sition to vomit is Less argent Every motion 

it (Bry.). 

(OLOCYMH. 

Agonizing pain in abdomen causing \ to bend 

double, with restlessness, twisting and turning 
tain relief; relieved by hard pr 

Pains: arc worse after eatii Irinking; compel 

patient to bend double ; menses, suppressed by chagrin, 
colic pains. 

Extremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or 
offended on being questioned. 

Irritable; throw- things oul of his hands. 

Affections from anger, with indignation, especially 
colic, vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression ofm 

Vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially 

the left, as it' he would tall. 

Sciatica: crampy pain in hip as though Bcrewed in 

a vise; lies upon affected side. 

Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the whole 

limb, left hip, left thigh, left kn< 

Relations. — Complementary; Merc, in dysentery, 

with great tenesmus. 

Compare with Staph, in ovarian or other di 
from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or 
silent grief. 

Aggravation. — Anger and indignation : mortifica- 
tion caused by oftense. 

Amelioration. — From doubling up; hard pressure. 

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COLLINSONIA. 

Pelvic and portal congestion resulting in dysmenor- 
rhea and piles. 

Congestion of pelvic viscera, especially in latter 
months of pregnancy. 

Dropsy from cardiac disease. 

Palpitation : in patients subject to piles and indi- 
gestion; heart's action persistently rapid but weak. 

After heart is relieved old piles reappear, or sup- 
pressed menses return. 

Chronic, painful, bleeding piles ; sensation as if sticks, 
sand or gravel had lodged in rectum (JEsc). 

Hemorrhoidal dysentery with tenesmus. 

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; congestive 
inertia of lower bowel. 

Pruritus in pregnancy with hemorrhoids; unable 
to lie down. 

Relations. — In heart disease complicated with 
hemorrhoids consult Collinsonia when Cac, Dig. and 
other remedies fail. 

Has cured colic after Col. and Nux had failed. 

Compare; JEsc., Aloe, Cham., Nux, Sulph. 

Aggravation. — The slightest mental emotion or 
excitement aggravates the symptoms. 

CONIUM. 

The " Balm of Gilead " for diseases of old maids 
and women during and after climacteric. 

Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; with 
rigid muscular fibre ; persons with light hair who are 
iv excited. 
(Glandular indurations of stony hardness; ofmammse 

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COM I'M— GmJthm 

and testicles in persons of caaceroua tendency 
braises and injuries of glands. 

Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during 
menstruation. 

Vertigo ; especially when lying down or turning in bed; 
moving the head slightly, or even the eyes; must b 
head perfectly still ; on turning the head to the left. 

Cough : in spasmodic paroxysms caused by drj 
in larynx (in throat, .' nth itching in chest and 

throat (Iod.); worse at night, when lying down, and 
during pregnancy. 

Greal difficulty in voiding urine, flow intermits, 
then flows again. 

Dreads being alone, but avoids sociel .. Kali c, 

Lye). 

Bad eftects of supprec cual desire; non-grati- 

fication of sexual instinct, or from rive indulg 

Aversion to light without inflammation of 
worse from using eyes in artificial light; often the - 
dents' remedy for night work. 

Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort. 

Relations. — Patients requiring Conium often im- 
prove from wine or stimulants, though persons - 
ceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants 
when in health. 

Aggravation. — At night: lying down : rising up 
in bed : celibacy. 

CROCUS. 

Hemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, 
clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from 
the bleeding surface (Elaps). 
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CROCUS— (Continued). 

Nosebleed: black, tenacious, stringy, every drop 
ean be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large 
drops on forehead (cold sweat, but wants to be fanned; 
with bright red blood, Carbo veg.). 

Dysmenorrhea: flow black, stringy and clotted. 

Sensation as if something alive were moving in the 
stomach, abdomen, arms or other parts of the body. 

Relation. — Nux, Puis., or Sulph. follows Crocus in 
nearly all complaints. 



CROTON. 

Drawing pain through the chest from breast to scapula 
every time the child nurses. 

The bowels are moved as if by spasmodic jerks, 
" coming out like a shot," as soon as patient eats, drinks, 
or even while eating. 

Intense itching of skin, but so tender is unable to 
scratch ; > by gentle rubbing. 

Swashing sensation in intestines, as from water. 

Constant urging to stool followed by sudden evacua- 
tion. 

Aggravation. — Diarrhoea ; after drinking ; while 
eating or nursing; during summer; from fruit and 
sweetmeats (Gamb.). 

CROTALUS. 

Is indicated in strumous, debilitated, hemorrhagic, 
broken-down constitutions; during zymotic diseases; 
in inebriates ; tendency to carbuncles or blood boils 
(Anthr.). 

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CBOTAIjUS— 

Apoplexy : apoplectic convulsions. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; blood flows from eyes, ea 
■ •. and every orifice i >f the body ; bio at. 

Yellow color of conjunctiva; clears up vision after 
keratitis. 

Malignant jaundice ; hematic rather than hepal 

Purpura hemorrhagica; iddenly from 

all orifices, skin, nails, gums. 

Malignant diphtheria; oedema fauces 

or tonsils. 

Prostr It: blood- 

poisoning. 

Diarrhoea; stools black, thin, like cofl -g rands; 
offensive; from noxious effluvia or septic matters in 
food or drinks: from "high game;" duri low 

fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus. 

Intestinal hemorrhage when occurring in typical. 
septic, or zymotic di blood dark, fluid, non- 

coagulable. 

Relations. — Compai 

CUPBUM. 

A Btrohg metallic taste in the month with flow of 
saliva ( Rhus). 

Cholera morbus or Asiatic cholera, with cramps in 
abdomen and calves ot^ lc_ 

Bad effects of re-percussed eruptions resulting in 
brain affections, spasms, convulsions, vomiting: of 
suppressed foot-sweat (Sil., Zinc). 

Convulsions, with blue face and clinched thumbs. 

Cramps in the extremities, palms, soles, calves, with 
s;reat weariness of limbs. 

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CUPRUM— (Cmtinued). 

Clonic spasms, beginning in lingers and toes, and 
spreading- over entire body ; during pregnancy ; puer- 
peral convulsions. • 

When drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling 

sound (Ars., Thuja). 

Cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being 
poured from a bottle. 

Cough, > by drinking cold water. 

Whooping-cough : long lasting, suffocating, spas- 
modic cough ; unable to speak; breathless, blue face, 
rigid, stiff; three attacks successively (Stan.) ; vomit- 
ing of solid food after regaining consciousness (Can.). 

Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, 
like a snake (Lach.). 

Relations. — Complementary: Calc, Ars. follow 
well in cholera and cholera morbus. 

Verat. follows well in whooping-cough and cholera. 

DIGITALIS. 

Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous 
weakness and irregular intermitting pulse, occurring 
at the climacteric ; worse by least motion. 

Weak heart without valvular complications. 

Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved 
(fears that unless constantly on the move heart will 
cease beating, Gels.). 

Faintness or sinking at the stomach ; exhaustion ; 
extreme prostration ; feels as if he were dying. 

Xightly emissions, with great weakness of genitals 
after coitus. 

Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk. 



DIGITALIS— d 

Pulse full, irregular^ very slow and i mitting 

/ third, fifth or sevi nth beat 

Face pale, deathlike appearance and bluish-red. 

Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue; cyanosis. 

Respiration irregular, difficult, sighing. 

The fingers " go to Bleep" frequently and easily. 

Dropsy; post-scarlatinal ; id B right's disease ; with 
suppression of urine. 

Relations. — Cinchona antidotes the direct action 
of Digitalis and increases the anxiety. 

Aggravation. — When Bitting, especially when - 
ting erect : motion. 

DIOSCOREA. 

Persons of feeble digestive powers, old or 3 

Flatulence after meal- or ;« specially of 

tea-drinkers; are often subject to violent colic. 
Griping pains in abdomen about umbili 
Violent twisting colic, occurring in regular parox- 
ysms, as ii" intestines were grasped and twisted by a 

powerful hand. 

Colie pains: worse from bending double; better on 
standing erect or bending backwards (rev. 

Emissions during sleep: vivid dreams of women all 
night; knees weak: great despondency (Staph.). 

Felons; early when pains are sharp and agonizing, 
when pricking is first felt; nails brittle. 

Disposition to paronychia (Hep.). 

DROSEKA. 

Whooping-cough with violent paroxysms which fol- 
low each other rapidly, is scarcely able to get breath. 



DROSERA— ( Continued). 

Cough, aggravated by warmth, drinking, singing, 
laughing, weeping, lying down, after midnight 

During cough ; vomiting of water, mucus, and often 
bleeding at the nose and mouth (Cup.). 

Sensation of feather in larynx, exciting cough. 

Diseases prevailing during epidemic whooping- 
cough ■; during or after measles. 

Clergymen's sore throat; with rough, scraping, dry 
sensation deep in the fauces ; voice hoarse, deep, tone- 
ess, cracked, requires exertion to speak (Arum.). 

Constriction and crawling in larynx, hoarseness, and 
yellow or green sputa. 

Laryngeal phthisis following whooping-cough. 

Relations. — Complementary to : Nux vomica. 

Compare : Cina, Coral., Cup., Ipec, Samb., in spas- 
modic coughs. Often relieves the constant, distressing 
night-cough in tuberculosis. 

DULCAMARA. 

Adapted to persons of phlegmatic scrofulous con- 
stitutions ; restless, irritable. 

Catarrhal rheumatism or skin affections, brought on 
or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy 
weather. 

Patients living or working in a damp, cold base- 
ment, or a milk dairy (Aran., Ars., Nat. s.). 

Skin is delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to eruptions, 
especially urticaria; every time patient takes cold or is 
long exposed to cold. 

Anasarca; after ague, measles, rheumatism, scarlet 
fever, 

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DULCAMARA— (Continued, .] 

Dropsy: after suppressed sweat; suppressed erup- 
tions. 

Diarrheea: from taking cold in damp places, or 
during damp, foggy weather; change from warm 
cold weather (Bry.), 

Catarrhal ischuria in grown-up children, with milky 
nrine; from wading with hare feet in cold water: in- 
voluntary. 

Rash before the mens 

Mental confusion; cannot find the right word for 
anything. 

Warts, fleshy, large, Bmooth; on tare or hack of 
hands. 

Relations. — Complementary to : Baryta carb. 

Incompatible with Bell.,Lach. Should not be 
before or alter. 

Similar to: Mere, in ptyalism, glandular swell- 
ings, bronchitis^ diarrhoea; susceptibility to weather 
changes ; night pains. 

For the had effects or abuse of Mercury. 

Aggravation. — From cold in general; cold air; 
cold, wet weather: suppressed menstruation. 

EUPATORIUM. 

Adapted to diseases of old people ; worn-out con- 
stitutions, especially from inebriety ; cachexia, from 
prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent 
fevers. 

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body. 

Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, espe- 
cially the wrists, as if dislocated. The more general 
and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry.). 

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EUPATORIUM— {Continued). 

Painful soreness of eyeballs ; coryza, aching in every 
l>one. great prostration in epidemic influenza. 

Tains come quickly and go away as quickly (Bell., 
Mag. p., Eup. pur.). 

Vertigo ; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot 
turn the head to the left for fear of falling, Col.). 

Fever : chill about 7 to 9 a.m. one day, at noon 
the next day ; bitter vomiting at close of chill ; drink- 
ing hastens chill and causes vomiting, bone pains. 

Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever ; 
knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough. 

Relations. — Is followed well by ISTat. m. and Sep. 

Compare: Chel., Pod., Lyc, in jaundiced conditions. 

Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, 
but pains keep patient quiet; while Eup. has scanty 
sweat and pains make patient restless. 

EUPHRASIA. 

Bad effects from falls, contusions or mechanical in- 
juries of external parts (Arm). 

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, espe- 
cially of the eyes and nose. 

Profuse, acrid lachrymation, with profuse, bland co- 
ryza (reverse of All. c). 

The eyes ivater all the time and are agglutinated in 
the morning ; margins of lids red, swollen, burning. 

Profuse expectoration of mucus by voluntary hawk- 
ing. 

Amenorrhoea, with catarrhal symptoms of eyes and 
nose. 

Menses: painful, regular; flow lasting only one 
hour ; or late, scanty, very short, lasting only one day. 

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EUPHRASIA- 

Pertussis: exc< Lachrymation daring 

cough only in day time | Per, 

Relations. — Similar to: Puis, in affections of the 
eyes; reverse of All. c. in lachrymation and cor] 

Aggravation. — In the evening, in bed, ind 
warmth, moisture ; after < Ihirind; when 

touched | Sep.). 

FEBBUBL 

Perspne of Banguine temperament ; pettish, quarrel- 
some, disputative, easily excited, least contradicti 
I !oc, Cgn«). 

Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have 
a fiery red face. 

Extreme paleness of the face, lipe and mucous mem- 
branes, which becorru red and flusl the lecu 
i motion 

Erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter. 

Red parts fh ihite; face, lipe, and mu- 

cous membrane of mouth. 

NTertigo : with balancing if on water; 

on seeing flowing water: when walking over v. 
when crossing a bridge (Hydro.); when descending 
(Bor.). 

Headache: hammering, beating, pulsating paL 
must lie down; with aversion to eating or drinking. 
For two, three or four days every two or three we< 

Mouses: too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with 
fiery red face; ringing in the ears: intermit two or 
three days and then return: flow pale, watery, debili- 
tating. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; blood bright red. coagu- 
lates easily (Ipec,, Phos.) 

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FEBRUM— (Ckmtinued). 

Canine hanger, or loss of appetite, with extreme 
dislike for all food. 

Vomiting, immediately after midnight; of ingesta, 
>on as food is eaten; sour, acid (Lye., Sul. ac.). 

Diarrhoea : undigested stools at night, or while eating 
or drinking (Crot. t.) ; painless, with a good appetite; 
of consumptives. 

Always feels better by walking slowly about, although 
weakness obliges the patient to lie down. 

Cough only in the day time ; relieved by lying 
down. 

Relations — Complementary to: Alum., Cinch. 

Should never be given in syphilis; always aggra- 
vates the condition.. 

Aggravation. — At night; at rest, especially while 
sitting still. 

Amelioration. — Walking slowly about. 

GELSEMIUM. 

For children, young people, especially women of 
a nervous, hysterical temperament. 

Excitable, irritable, sensitive ; for the nervous affec- 
tions of onanists of both sexes. 

Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news and 
sudden emotions (Ign. — from pleasant surprises, Coff.). 

The anticipation of any unusual ordeal, preparing 
for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings 
on diarrhoea; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing 
in public. 

General depression from heat of sun or summer. 

Desire to be quiet, to be let alone ; does not wish to 

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GELSEMIUM— (< d). 

speak or have any one aear her, even it' the pei - 
silent (Ign.). 

Vertigo, spreading from the occiput ; with diplopia, 
dim vision, loss of siirlit : intoxicated wh< 

ing to mov 

Children; fear of falling, grasp tin.* crib oi T he 

nurse (Bor.). 

Headache, which is relieved by profuse urination. 

Lack of muscular co-ordination; confused; muscles 
refuse to obey the will. 

Headache, beginning in cervical spine; pains extend 
over the head, causing a bursting sensation in i 
head and eyeballs (Sang., Bil., begin in sao ,but 

semi-lateral); worse from smokii 

Sensation of band around the head abo 
(Carb. ac., Sblph. ) ; scalp - touch. 

Pears that unless on the move heart will 
ing (fears it would cease beating it' she moved, Dig 

Great heaviness of the eyelids; cannol keep them 
open (Caust.). 

Chill, without thirst, especially along the -pine run- 
ning up and down the hack in rapid, wave-like sensa- 
tion from sacrum to occiput 

Relations. — Compare : Bap. in threatening typhoid 
fever: Ipecac, in dumb ague, alter suppression by 
quinine. 

Aggravation, — Damp weather; before a thunder- 
storm; mental emotion or excitement: bad />■ 

bacco smoking. 

GLOXOIXE. 

Nervous temperament : plethoric, florid, sensitive 

persons. 

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OliONOINE— (QmHnued). 

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, me- 
chanical injuries and their later consequences; from 
having the hair cut, and exposure to rays of sun. 

Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the 
head and heart. 

Head : feels enormously large ; sunstroke and sun 
headache. 

Terrific shocks in the head, synchronous with the 
pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache; holds head 
with both hands ; could not lie down, " the pillow 
would beat." 

Brain feels too large, full, bursting; blood seems to 
be pumped upwards; throbs at every jar, step, pulse. 

Flushes of heat; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., 
Lach.), with the catamenia (Fer., Sang.). 

Intense congestion of brain from delayed or sup- 
pressed menses ; headache in place of the menses. 

Headache occurring after profuse uterine hemor- 
rhage; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women. 

Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids; 
heart's action labored, oppressed; blood seems to rush 
to heart. 

Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion; 
meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call 
for Belladonna. 

Children get sick in the evening when sitting be- 
fore an open coal fire. 

Relations. — Compare : Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., 
Btbam. 

Aggravation. — In the sun ; gaslight ; overheating ; 
jar; stooping; ascending ; touch of hat; having the 
hair cut. 

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GRAPHITES. 

Baited to women, inclined to obesity, who .suffer 
from habitual constipation; with a history of delaj 
menstruation. 

"What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at * 
climacteric." 

Bad, despondent; music makes her weep; think- 
nothing bu1 death (music is intolerable, Nat <•.. 8 

Morning sickness during menstruati ry weak 

and prostrated. 

Leucorrhoea: acrid, excoriating; occurs in gm 
day and night; before and after menses (bel 3 p.; 

niter, I\re« 

Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abe 
retarding the flow of milk; cancer, from old - 
and repeated e 

Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates II 
eruptions behind the ear-, on various parts of body, 
from which ooze a watery, transp yjhrid. 

The nails brittle, crumbling, deformed (Ant 
painful, sore, as if ulcerated. 

(/racks or fissures in ends of fingers, nipples, labial 
commissures: of anus; between tie 

Burning round spot on vertex (Calc, Sulph. — cold 
spot Sep., Yer.). 

Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without p 
to move or speak. 

Takes cold easily; sensitive to draught of air (Bor., 
Calc, Hep., Xux). Suffering parts emaciate. 

Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a 
carriage. 

Chronic constipation ; stool large, hard, knotty, with 
lumps united by mucous threads. 

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GRAPHITES— (Continued). 

Children: impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. 

Sensation of cobweb on forehead, tries hard to 
brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. s.). 

Phlegmonous erysipelas ; of face, with burning, 
Btinging pain: commencing on right side, going to 
left : alter application of Iodine. 

Decided aversion to coition (both sexes). 

Relations. — Complementary: Caust., Hep., Lye; 
follows well after Lye. 

Similar to : Lye, Puis., in menstrual troubles. 

Graphites follows Calc. well, in obesity of young 
women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue. 

It follows Sulph. well in skin affections. 

HAMAMELIS. 

This shrub flowers from September to November, 
when the leaves are falling. The seeds mature the 
following summer. 

It is adapted to venous hemorrhage from every or- 
ifice of the body. 

Yenous congestion ; phlebitis, varicose veins ; ulcers 
with stinging, pricking pain. 

Patients, subject to varicose veins, take cold easily 
from every exposure, especially in warm, moist air. 

" Is the Aconite of the venous capillary system." 

Chronic effects of mechanical injuries (Con.). 

Nosebleed; flow passive, long-lasting, blood non- 
coagulable (Crotal.). 

Hemorrhage ; profuse, dark, grumous, from ulcera- 
tion of bowels (Crotal.). 

Hemoptysis; tickling cough, with taste of blood 

or sulphur. 

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HAMAMELJS— d 

Menses: flow, dark and profuse; with 
abdomen; after a blow on ovary, or a fall; all rafter- 
ing worse at menstrual period (Act., I' 1 ; 

After hemorrhage from piles, pi on out i I 

proportion to amount of blood lost Bydr.). 

Relations. — Complementary to: Perrumin hemor- 
rhages and the hemorrhagic dial 

Compare: Ah\.. Calbn., for traumatic and abc 
tion of intraocular hemorrha^ 

HELLEBORE. 

Weakly, delicate, psoric children; to brain 

troubles. 

Unconscious; stupid; ane slowly when q 

tioned. 

Brain symptoms during dentition (Apis, Bell., 

Pod.) 

Meningitis: acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with 
exudation ; paralysis more or 

Vacant staring; eyes wide open; ible to light; 

pupils dilated. 

Soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, stai 

Hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular (Tub., 
Bulph.). 

Convulsions with extreme coldness of body, 
head or occiput, which may be hot (Arn.). 

Greedily swallows cold water ; bites spoon, hut re- 
mains unconscious. 

Chewing motion of the mouth ; nostrils dirty and 
dry. 

Constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into 

his nose with his finger. 

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HELLEBORE— (Continued). 

Boring head into pillow, rolling from side to side; 
beating head with hands. 

Urine: red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment; 
suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy. 

Relations. — Compare : Apis, Apoc, Ars., Bell., 
Bry., Dig., Lacii., Sulph., Tub. in brain or meningeal 
affections. 

HEPAK. 

For torpid lymphatic constitutions; persons with 
light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft 
and flabby. The slightest injury causes suppuration 
(Graph., Mer.). 

In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, 
Hepar may open the abscess and hasten the cure. 

Oversensitive, physically and mentally ; the slight- 
est cause irritates him ; hasty speech and hasty 
drinking. 

Patient is peevish, angry at the least trifle ; hypo- 
chondriacal ; unreasonably anxious. 

Extremely sensitive to cold air ; must be wrapped 
up to the face even in hot weather (Psor.) ; cannot 
bear to be uncovered. (Nux. — cannot bear to be 
covered, Camp., Sec.) 

Coughs when any part of the body is uncovered ; 
croupy, choking, strangling cough from exposure to dry 
icest wind; the land wind (Aeon.). 

Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the 
throat. 

The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear 
even clothes to touch affected parts (Lach.). 

Diseases where the system has been injured by the 

al»u<e of Mercury. 

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HEPAB— ( 

skin affections extremely the pain 

often causing fainting. 

Dicers, herpes, surrounded by little pimplee 
pustules and spread by coalescii 

balls: sore to touch; pain as if they would be 
pulled back into head (Olean., Park 

DiarrhoBa: of children with sour smell (child I 
Bour smell, Rheum. | ; clay-colored - ale, P< 

ate : profusely day and night without ; per- 

spiration sour, offensive ; easily, on every mental or 
physical exertion (Psor., Be] 

Relations. — Complementary r<»: Calendula in in- 
juries of sofl pari 

Compare: The psoric skin affections Bulph. are 
dry, itching, by scratching, and n< 
touch : while in Hepar skin i> unhealthy, suppurati 
moist, and extremely sensitive to touch. 

Aggravation. — Lying on painful ride { ECalic, Pula 
cold air; uncovering; touching affected parts; al 
of Mercury. 

Amelioration — Warmth in general wrap- 

ping up warmly, especially the head (Pfi . SiL); in 
damp, wet weathei rt.). 

HYPERICUM, 

Mechanical injuries of spinal cord; bad eliects of 
spinal concussion: pains, after a fall on coccyx. 

Punctured wounds, sore, painful (contused woun 
Am.), 

Injuries from treading on nails, needles, pins, splin- 
ters: from rat-bites: prevents lockjaw. 
6 SI 



HYPERICUM— (Continued). 

Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves, fingers, toes, 
matrices of nails, palms or soles; where the intoler- 
able pain shows nerves are severely involved; of tis- 
sues of animal life. 

Nervous depression following wounds or surgical 
operations ; removes bad effect of shock. 

Modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and slough- 
ing. Crushed, mashed finger-tips. Tetanus after 
traumatic injuries. 

Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, show- 
ing nerve involvement. 

Convulsions ; after blows on head or concussion. 

Spine: after a fall; slightest motion of arms or neck 
extorts cries ; spine very sensitive to touch. 

Vertigo : sensation as if head became suddenly elon- 
gated. 

Headache : after a fall upon occiput, with sensation 
as if being lifted up high into the air ; great anxiety 
lest she fall from this height. 

Relations. — Compare : Arn., Calen., Ruta, Staph. 

In wounds where formerly Aeon, and Arn. were 
given alternately, Hypericum cures. 

HYOSCYAMUS. 

Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irri- 
table, nervous, hysterical. 

Convulsions : of children, from the irritation of in- 
i nal worms (Cina) ; during labor ; during the puer- 
peral state. 

Di- with increased cerebral activity but non- 

inflammatory in type; hysteria or delirium tremens; 

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HYOSCYAMUS— 

delirium, with restless £ bed, tries to 

ape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he La in the 

wrong place; talks of imaginary w >ut has no 

wants and niak tmplail 

\]\ delirium, Hyoscyam a a place midwi 

between Belladonna and Stramonium; tacks tl 
.-rant cerebral the former and tl>- 

and maniacal delirium of the latter. 

Spasms: without conscious] ry restless ; 

muscle in the body twitches (with 

8 ). 

Fears: being alone; poison; bitten: Bold; to eat ; 
to take what is offered. 

Bad effects of unfortunate love ; with jealous; , _ . 
incoherent spee< h or inclination to laugb 
often followed by epilepsy. 

Lascivious mania ; 
kicks off the cloth 3, 
Bong 

h: dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; worse when 
lying down, relieved by Bitting up. 

In / irrital . 

i mbarti . often imaginary. 

Paralysis of bladder; after labor, with retention or 
incontinence of urine: no desire to urinate in lying-in 
women (Am., Op.). 

Relations. — Compare Bell.. Btram., and Verat. 

riios. often cures lasciviousness when lives, tails. 

Xux or Opium in hemoptysis of drunkard-. 

Follows Bell, well in deafness after apoplexy. 

Aggravation. — At night ; during menses : mental 
affections; jealousy, unhappy love. 



IGNATIA. 

Especially suited to nervous temperament; women 
of a sensitive, easily excited nature; dark hair and 
skin but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in 
execution. In striking contrast with the fair com- 
plexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, 
Pulsatilla. 

Th( remedy of great contradictions: the roaring in 
ears > by music; the piles > when walking; sore 
throat feels > when swallowing; empty feeling in 
stomach not > by eating; cough < the more he 
coughs ; cough on standing still during a walk ; spas- 
modic laughter from grief; sexual desire with im- 
potency ; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the fever ; 
the color changes in the face when at rest. 

Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly 
short time, change from joy to sorrow, from laughing 
to weeping. 

Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-con- 
centrated grief. 

Involuntary sighing, with a weak, empty feeling at pit 
of stomach ; not relieved by eating. Bad effects of 
anger, grief, or disappointed love (Cal. p., Hyos.) ; 
broods in solitude over imaginary trouble. 

Children : when reprimanded, scolded, or sent to 
bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep. 

Headache, as if a nail was driven out through the 
side, relieved by lying on it (Compare: Coff., ]STux, 
Thuja). 

Cannot bear tobacco; smoking, or being in tobacco 
smoke, produces or aggravates headache. 

In talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek. 

Sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating. 

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IGNATIA— 

Prolapsus ani from mod 

. Pod., Rata). 

Eemorrhoids ; prolapse with • stool, hi 

be replaced; stitches up the rectum (Nit. a, . 

Desire to be alone. 

Finely sensitive mood, delical 

[nconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarr* 

Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily 
disturbed by very slight emotion; easily offended. 

The slightest Mann- or contradiction ger. 

Ill effects from bad new-, from vexation with reserved 
displeasure; from suppressed mental sufferings; of 
shame and mortification. 

Pain in small, circumscribed sp 

Fever: chill, with thirst during chiR only ; heal 
out thirst 

[gnatia bears the same relation to the d of 

women thai Xu.\ doea to sanguine, bilious men. 

Relations. — Incompatible : Nux, Tab. 

The bad effects of [gn. are antidoted by Puis. 

Aggravation. — Tol brandy, contact, 

motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief, etc 

Amelioration. — Warmth, hard pressure (Cinch.); 

swallowing. 

IODINE. 

Persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black 
hair and eves: a low cachectic condition, with | 

found debility and great emaciation (Abrot.). 

Great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs 

(Calc); during the menses (Alum. Carbo an.. Coo.). 

Eats freely and well, yet loses flesh all the time 
(Abrot., Xat. m., Same.). 



IODINE— (Continued). 

Empty eructations from morning to night, as if every 
particle of food was turned into air (Kali a). 

Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours, 
anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.). 

Itching : low down in the lungs, behind the sternum, 
causing cough; extends through bronchi to nasal 
cavity (Coc. c, Con., Phos.). 

Hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue ; 
thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate or 
other glands. 

Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired 9 
Brom.). 

Palpitation, worse from least exertion (compare 
Dig. — from least mental exertion, Cal. ars.). 

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together 
(Cac). 

Leucorrhoea: acrid, corrosive, staining the linen; 
most abundant at time of menses. 

Cancerous degeneration of the cervix; cutting pains 
in abdomen and hemorrhage at every stool. 

Croup ; membranous, hoarse, . dry cough, worse in 
warm, wet weather ; with wheezing and sawing respi- 
ration (Spong.). 

Child grasps the larynx (Cepa) ; face pale and cold, 
especially in fleshy children. 

Relations — Complementary to : Lye. 

Compare Brom., Acet. ac, Con., Kali bi., Spong. 
in membranous croup and croupy affections; espe- 
cially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis. 

Should not be given during lying-in period, except 
in high potencies. — Hering. 

Aggravation. — Warmth; wrapping up the head 
(reverse of Hep., Psor.). 



IPECACUANHA. 

Axlapted to i here tin 

dominate (Ant c, Pu] 

/„ all di ual nan 

(priding, 

Nausea : with profuse salr smiting of whii 

-luiry mucus in large quantities without reli 
afterwards; worse from stooping; primary effi 
tobi lancy. 

Stomach : feels relaxed, as ifha 
clutching, squeezi rom a hand, each 

finger sharply pr< into in1 

motion. 

Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilici 
»<»l : grasc 
bloody; fermented, slimy; like frothy molaas< 

Autumnal dysentery; cold n : _ 
(Colch., \l. r . 

Asiatic ch< > ] ra, B here w and 

vomiting predominal 

Hemorrhage: passive, bright-red from all the ori- 
fices of the l"" : Mill.); uterine, prol 
clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during 
from navel to uterus. 

Cutting paine bdomen Prom left to right 

(Lach. — from righl to left, Lj 

Cough; dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. 

Difficult breathing from least violent 

dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the 
stomach. 

Whooping-cough; child loses breath, turns pale, 
stilt and blue: strangling, with gagging and vomit- 
ing of mucus. 

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IPECACUANHA— (Continued). 

Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when 
inspiring (Ant t.). 

Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, 
Kup.). 

Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same 
hour. 

Oversensitive to heat and cold. 

Relation. — Complementary : Cuprum. 

Is followed well by Ars. in influenza, chills, croup, 
debility. 

Similar to : Puis., Ant. c, in gastric troubles. 

Foreign bodies in larynx; should be used before 
Ant, t. 

Aggravation. — Winter and dry weather; warm, 
moist south winds (Euph.) ; slightest motion. 

KALI BICHROMICUM. 

Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, 
syphilitic or psoric affections. 

Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to 
croup. 

Affections of the mucous membranes — eyes, nose, 
mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito- 
urinary tracts — discharges of a tough, stringy mucus which 
adheres to the parts and can be drawn into long strings. 

Complaints occurring in hot weather. 

Uheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one 
appearing in the fall and the other in the spring. 

Pains: in small spots, can.be covered with point of 
finger (Ign.) ; shift rapidly from one part to another 
(Puis.) ; appear and disappear suddenly (Bell.). 

Neuralgia every day at same hour. 

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KALI BICHROMICUM— d). 

Nose: pressive pain in root of i lischarge of 

plugs, " clinkers ; " tough, ropy, green fluid muc 
in clear masses, and has violent pain from occiput to 
forehead it' dischar 

Ulceration of Beptum, with Moody discha _ 
large flake- of hard mucus (Alum.. Sep., Teucr.). 

Diphtheria : pseudo- membranous deposit, firm, 
pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to 
larynx and trachea (reverse of Brom.). 

(Edematous, Madder-like appearance of uvula; much 
swelling, bul little redness (Rhus 

Cough: violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid 

mucus in the throat. 

Croup : hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough 
mucus or fibro-elasti in morning on awaken- 

ing, with dyspnoea, relieved by lying down (worse 
when lying down, Aral., Lach.). 

Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often Byphilitic. 

Eeadache: blurred vision or blindness precedes the 
attack; must lie down; aversion to light and n<- : 
sight returns as headache inci at. m.). 

Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather. 

Sexual desire absent in fleshy people. 

Relations. — Compare: Bromine, Hbpab in croupy 
affections. 

After Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with t< 
membranes, general weakness and coldness are present. 

Ant. t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin 
diseases. 

Aggravations, — Heat of summer: hot weather. 

Amelioration. — Skin symptoms are better in cold 
weather (reverse of Alum, and Pet.). 

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KALI BROMATUM. 

Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts 
better in children than in adults. 

Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire 
body; staggering, uncertain gait; feels as if legs were 
all over sidewalk. 

Night terrors of children ; grinding teeth in sleep, 
moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted 
by friends. Somnambulism. 

Incoordination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weak- 
ness or paralysis of motion and numbness. 

Spasms : from fright, anger or emotional causes in 
nervous plethoric persons ; during parturition, teeth- 
ing, whooping-cough, Bright's disease. 

Epilepsy: congenital, syphilitic, tubercular ; usually 
a day or two before menses ; at new moon ; headache 
follows attack. 

Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absent- 
minded; had to be told the word before he could 
speak it (Anac). 

Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, " feel as if they 
would lose their minds." 

Acne : simplex, indurata, rosacea ; bluish-red, pus- 
tular, on face, chest, shoulders ; leaves unsightly scars 
(Carbo an.). 

Periodic colic in infants about 5 p.m. (at 4 p.m., Col., 
Lye). 

Relations. — One of the antidotes for lead poisoning. 

Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne. 

KALI CARBONICUM. 

For die >f old people, dropsy and paralysis ; dark 

hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Amm. c, Graph.). 

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KALI CABBONICUM- 

Alter lose of fluids or vitality, particularly in the 
anaemic. 

Pains stitching, darting •• during rest and lying 

on affected Bide (stitching, darting, b 
and lying on painful ride, Bry.). 

Cannot bear to fh touched; starts when touched 
bo lightly, especially on the G 

Great aversion to being aUnu (Ars., Bis., Lye; : > 
to be alpne, [gn., Nux). 

Bag-lih swellings between upper eyelid* andeyebr 

Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, mea 

Stomach distended, sensitive ; feel it would 

burst; excessive flatulency; everything she eats or 
drinks appears to be converted u 

Feels badly, week before menstn he be- 

fore and during mens< 

Labor pain- insufficient; violen! backache; wai 
the back pressed (( 'auc 

Asthma, relieved when sitting up <>r bending for- 
ward or by rocking; worse from 2 to I \.m. 

■• Persons Buffering from ulceration of the lungs can 
scarcely gel well without tliis anti-psorir." — IIaii 

.MANN. 

Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx ae 
a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac.); t<><'d easily gets into the 
windpipe; pain in hark when Bwallowing. 

Constipation: stool large, difficult, with stitchi] 
colic i>ains an hour or two befor< 

Tendencyto fatty degeneration of the heart (Phos. . 

Very much inclined to take cold. 

Relations. — Complementary : Carbo v 

Compare Bry., Nat. m., Stan. 

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KALMIA. 

Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty 
complaints, especially when heart is involved as a se- 
quel of rheumatism or gout. 

In heart diseases that have developed from rheuma- 
tism, or alternate with it. 

Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a 
downward direction (upward, Led.) ; attended or suc- 
ceeded by numbness of affected part. 

Rheumatism: pains intense, change places, going 
from joint to joint; joints hot, red, swollen; worse 
from least movement. 

Vertigo when stooping or looking down (Spig.). 

Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 or 40 per min- 
ute) ; pale face and cold extremities. 

Relations. — Similar to: Led., Ehod., Spig., in 
rheumatic affections and gout. 

It follows Spig. well in heart diseases. 



KKEOSOTE. 

Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly 
nourished, overgrown ; very tall for her age. 

Children : old looking, wrinkled (Abrot.), scrofu- 
lous or psoric affections ; rapid emaciation (Iod.) ; post 
climacteric diseases of women (Lach.). 

Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed freely. 

Corrosive, ichorous discharges from mucous mem- 
branes. 

Itching, so violent toward evening as to drive one 
almost wild (without eruption Dolichos). 

Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as 
they appear. 

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KBEOSOTE— (< 

Menses : flow on lying dovm, ting ap; 

cold drinks relieve menstrual pain.-: flow intermits, at 
times almosl ceasing, then commencing again (Sulph.). 

[ncontinence of urine; can only urinate while lying. 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, corr< '.'be- 

tween periods (Bov., Bor.) ; has the odor of green corn. 

Relations. — Creosote is followed well by Ajb., 
Phos., Sulph., in cancer and diseases of a malignant 
tendency. 

Carboveg. and Creos. are inimical. 

Aggravation. — In the open air; cold weather; 
when growing cold; from washing or bathing with 
cold water; rest. 

Amelioration. — Generally better from warmth. 

LACHESIS. 

Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark • 
and a disposition to low spirits and indolen 

Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and 
red hair ( Phos. ). 

Better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy 
persons: to those who have been changed, both men- 
tally and physically, by their illness. 

Climacteric ailments : hemorrhoids, hemorrhag 
hot flushes and hot pert burning vertex head- 

ache, especially after cessation of the monthly flow 
(Sang., Sulph.). 

Women who have not recovered from the change 
of life, " have never felt well since that turn 

Drunkards with congestive headaches and hemor- 
rhoids ; prone to erysipelas. 

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LAGHESIS— (Ckmtinued). 

Left side principally affected ; diseases begin on the left 
and go to the right side. 

Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdo- 
men : cannot bear bedclothes or night-dress to touch 
throat or abdomen, not because sore or tender, as in 
Apis or Bell., but clothes cause an uneasiness, make 
her nervous. 

Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility. 

All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after 
sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into 
the aggravation ; unhappy, distressed. 

Mental excitability ; ecstacy, with almost prophetic 
perceptions; with a vivid imagination; great lo- 
quacity. 

Menses at regular time ; too short, scanty, feeble ; 
pains all relieved by the flow; always better during 
menses (Zinc). 

Great physical and mental exhaustion ; would con- 
stantly sink down from weakness ; w^orse in the morn- 
ing (Sulph., Tub.). 

Epilepsy ; comes on during sleep (Bufo) ; from loss 
of vital fluids, onanism, jealousy. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; small wounds bleed easily 
and profusely (Crot., Phos.) ; blood dark, non-coagu- 
lable (Crot., Sec). 

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers; malignant pustules; decu- 
bitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to malig- 
nancy. 

Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem, etc. 
Respiration ceases on falling asleep (Amm. c, Grind.). 

Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder. 

Fever annually returning ; paroxysm every spring 

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LACHESIS 

ion by quinine the | 
vioue autumn. 

Typhoid, typhus; Btupor or muttering deliriutn, 
sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw ; b a 
black, catches od the teeth when protruding 
tiva yellow or ora lor; perspiration i kins 

yellow, bloody 

Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on th I ex- 

ling to right 3 tbad.); dark purple appearao 

< by hot drink-, after Bleep ; liquids more painful than 
solids when swallowing; prostration out of all ; 
portion to appearance of throi 

Relations. — Complementary : Hep., 

In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows Lach. well 
when type changes. 

Aggravation. — Alter sleep: cont of 

temperature ; acids ; alcohol ; cinchona ; mercury. 

LAC ( VMM M. 

For nervous, restless, highly sensiti inisms. 

Very forgetful, absent-minded ; makes pure! 

and walks away without them. 

Fears to be alone (Kali c); of dying (Are.); of be- 
coming insane (LilA 

Coryza, with discharge of thick, white mucus. 

One nostril stuffed up, the other free and discha 
ing; these conditions alternate. 

Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic dej 
and ulcers. 

Symptoms erratic, pains constantly living from one 
part to another (Kali bi., Puis.) : changing from side 
to side every few hours or day-. 

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LAC CANINUM— (Continued). 

Diphtheria and tonsillitis ; symptoms change re- 
peatedly from side to side. 

Sinking at epigastrium, faintness in stomach. 

Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying 
down; must get up and walk and stir around (Grind., 
Lach.). 

Palpitation violent when lying on left side, > turn- 
ing on right (Tab.). 

When walking, seems to be walking on air ; when 
lying, does not seem to touch the bed. 

Serviceable in almost all cases when it is required 
to dry up milk. 

Sore throats are apt to begin and end with men- 
struation. 

Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest 
provocation (Lil., ISTit. ac); intense ugliness. 

Throat : sensitive to touch externally (Lach.) ; < by 
empty swallowing (Ign.) ; constant inclination to swal- 
low (Mer.) ; pains extend to ears (Hep., Kali bi.) ; 
begins on left side (Lach.). 

Chronic "blue" condition; everything seems so 
dark that it can grow no darker. 

Relations. — Similar to: Apis, Con., Murex, Lach., 
Kali bi., Puis., Sep., Sulph. 

It generally acts best in single dose. 

Probably no remedy in the Materia Medica presents 
a more valuable pathogenesis in symptoms of the 
throat, or one that will better repay a careful study. 

LEDUM. 

Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis ; consti- 
tutions abused by alcohol. 

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LEDUM— (Conti 

Rheumatism or goul ; begins in lower limbs and 

ends (descends, Kal.); especially if brought to a 
low asthenic condition by abase of Colchicum ; joints 
become the seal of nodosities and "gout Bton< 
which are painful. 

Affects lefl shoulder- and right hip-joint. 

Emaciation of affected pi 

Pain- are sticking, tearing, throbbing; rheumatic 
pain- are by motion; by warmth of bed and 
mg : only whi << holding J 

Complaints of people who are -old all the tin 
always feel cold and chilly; the wounded pari 
cially are cold to touch. 

Parts cold to touch, but not cold subjectively 
patient 

In Borne affections, warmth of 1mm] intolerable on 
account of heat and burning of lim 

[ntense itching of feet and ankles, from serai 
ing and warmth of bed < Puis., Rhuc 

Easy spraining of ankles and feet (Carb 

Punctured wounds by sharp-pointed instrumei 
as awls, nails (Hyper.) ; stings of ins< ally 

mosquitoes. 

Long-remaining discoloration after injuries ; " Mack 
and blue " places become gn \ 

Relations. — Compare: Arn.. Ham.. Bbllis, Euta, 
in traumatism. 

LILIU3I. 

Affects principally the left side of the body (Lach., 

Thuja). 

Sensation as if heart was grasped in a v : .): 

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LILIUM— ( Continued). 

as if blood had all gone to the heart; inability to 
walk erect. 

Tormented about her salvation (with ovarian or 
uterine complaints). 

Wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas. 

Profound depression of spirits; can hardly avoid 
weeping; indifferent about what is being done for 
her. 

Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things 
(Anac, Lac c); alternate with uterine irritation. 

Listless, yet cannot sit still ; restless, yet does not 
want to walk; must keep busy to repress sexual desire. 

Desire to do something, hurried manner, yet has no 
ambition; aimless, hurried motion. 

Fears ; being alone, insanity, heart disease, she is 
incurable, some impending calamity. 

Cannot walk on uneven ground. 

Pains in small spots ; constantly shifting (Kali bi.). 

Frequent urging to urinate ; if desire is not attended 
to, sensation of feeling of congestion in chest. 

Bearing-down sensation in abdomen and pelvis, as 
though all organs would escape; > by pressure of 
hand (compare, Murex, Sepia). 

Menses : early, scanty, dark, offensive ; flows only 
when moving about; ceased to flow when she ceased 
to walk. 

Pulsations over whole body, and full, distended feel- 
ing, as if blood would burst through the vessels. 

Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute. 

Constant desire to defecate and urinate (with pro- 
lapsus). 

Weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus, re- 



LELIUM I 

suiting in aii' !i. retrov* i rab-involuti 

nearly always with constipation, from inactivity. 

Relations. — Compare : A< 

Mi i;i:x. N 1 1. P., Plat.. > ... T 

LYCOPODIUM. 

For persons intellectually keen, bul physically weak; 
upper pari of body emaciated, lower p ti-drop- 

J : predisposed to lung and hepatic afl ios., 

Sulph.). 

I >. ■ ing, chronic di 

I diphtheria ; fauces brownish-red, d< spreads 

from right tonsil to left, or descends from i 
right tonsil ; < after sl< ep and J 
warm drinks, Lacl 

Pain- : aching - pressure, drawing ; chiefly right- 
sided. 

Dread of men; of solitude; fear of being alone 
(Bis., Kali c, Lil.). 

Red Band in urine on child's diaper (Ph ild 

erics before urinating (Bor.) ; pain in back, relieved 
by urinating. 

Everything sour; eructations, heartburn, water- 

brash, sour vomiting n chill and hei 

Gastric affections re accumulation <>t' fl&tu- 

lence; constant Bensation of aatietj 1 appetite, 

but a few mouthfuls tills up to the throat, and he i 
bloated: fermentation in abdomen, with loud grum- 
bling, croaking: not relieved by belching ((/inch.). 

Canine hunger: the more lie eats, the more he 
craves: head aches if he docs not eat. 

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LYCOPODIUM— (Continued). 

Complexion pale, dirty, unhealthy ; fan-like motion 
of alee nasi (Ant. t.). 

Affeets right side, or goes from right to left; throat, 
chest, abdomen, ovaries. 

One foot hot and the other cold. 

Waking at night feeling hungry (Cina, Psor.). 

Relations. — Complementary to : Iodine. 

Bad effects: of onions, bread; wine, spirituous 
liquors ; tobacco-smoking. 

Follows well after; Calc, Lach., Puis., Sulph. 

For the bad effects of tobacco-chewing (Ars.). 

It is rarely advisable to begin treatment of chronic 
diseases with Lye. unless clearly indicated ; it is better 
to give first another antipsoric. 

Lye. is a deep-seated, long-acting remedy, and should 
rarely be repeated after improvement begins. 

Aggravation. — Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 p.m. ; 
after eating ; cold food and drinks. 

Amelioration. — Warm food and drinks ; from un- 
covering the head ; loosening the garments. 

LYSSIN. 

The sight or sound of running water or pouring water 
aggravates all complaints. 

Bluish discoloration of wounds (Lach.). 

Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire 
(from abstinence, Con.). 

Mental emotion always makes him worse. 

Cannot bear heat of sun. 

Convulsions : from dazzling or reflected light from 

water or mirror (Stram.); thinking of fluids of any 

kind. 

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LYSSIN- / 

Beadache : from bitee i hether rabid 

not; chronic, from mental emotion or exertion ; by 
noise of running water. 

Son* throat, constant dee wallow 

Difficulty in swallowing, 
from Bwallowing liquids. 

Constant desire to urim og running m I 

ilph.). 

Relations. — Compare: Bbll.,Canth.,Hi ,,fi m.. 
in hydrophobia. 

Aggravation. — Sight or sound of water; bright, 
dazzling light (Strain.) ; carriage-riding i —-better 
from, Nit a 

MAGNESIA CABB. 

For persons, able nervous 

temperament M !hai 

The who].' body feels tired and painfc tally 

the legs and f! • 

Pains; neuralgic, lightning-like, worse lefl side 

»1.); insupportable during repose, mi ip and 

walk (Rhufi 

Pain on vertex as If the hair were pulled. 

Menses: preceded by Bore throat, labor-like pain, 
cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness; tl 
only at night or when lying when walk 

(Kreos. — rev. of, LiL). 

Diarrhoea; preceded by cutting relic: occur- regu- 
larly every three week-: stools green, frothy, like 
scum of a frog-pond; white, tallow-like i are 

found floating in stool ; the milk passes undigested in 
ntirsing children. 

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MAGNESIA CAUB.— (Continued). 

When crude Magnesia has been taken to " sweeten 

the stomach;" if the symptoms correspond, the poten- 

tized remedy will often relieve. 

Relations. — Complementary to : Chamomilla. 
Aggravation. — Change of temperature ; every three 

weeks; rest- 
Amelioration. — Warm air, but worse in warmth of 

bed (Led., Mer. — better in warmth of bed, Ars.). 

MAGNESIA MURIATICA. 

Especially adapted to diseases of women ; spas- 
modic and hysterical complaints, complicated with 
uterine diseases. 

Children : during difficult dentitition are unable to 
digest milk ; it causes pain in stomach and passes un- 
digested. 

Great sensitiveness to noise (Nux, Ther.). 

Headache : every six weeks, in forehead and around 
the eyes ; as if it would burst ; worse from motion and 
in open air ; better from lying down, strong pressure, 
and wrapping up warmly (Sil.). 

Great tendency of head to sweat (Calc, Sanic, Sil.). 

Continual rising of white froth into the mouth. 

Eructations, tasting like onions (breath smells of 
onions, Sinap.). 

Constipation ; stool hard, large, knotty, like sheep's 
dung ; difficult to pass ; crumbling at verge of anus. 

Urine ; pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing 
down with abdominal muscles. 

Menses : with great excitement at every period ; 
flow black, clotted; spasms and pains extend into 

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MAGNESIA Ml KI ATM A- 

thighs; metrorrhagia, worse al night in bed, 
i ria. 

Leucorrhcea : after exercise ; with every stool ; with 
uterine spasm, followed by metrorrl j 

Relations. — Compare: Cham, in the di 
nursing children. 

MEDOBRHIN1 M. 

Vnv the rheumatic, gouty constitution, tally it' 

engrafted on a sycotic bae 

Children dwarfed or stunted in growth (Bar. 

Soreness all over as if bruised ('Am.. Eup., Bap. . 

Eeat and soreness, with enlargement of lymphatic 
glands all over body. 

Anxious, nervous, sensitr at the l< 

Bound. 

>■ nsation as it" he had taken re cold, with 

distressing aching in bon< 

Many symptoms aggravated by thinking of them 
(l tains return as soon as he thinks about them, Ox. ac.). 

Consumptive languor; fatigui ral de- 

pression of vitality. 

Trembling all over (subjective), nervous ml 

profound exhaustion. 

State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the tin 
craves fresh air: throws ofl tl, - Id, and 

bathed with cold perspiration (Camph., 

Burning of hands and feet; wants them ui 
and tanned. 

Time passes too slowly (Alum., Arg. n., (/aim. i.). 

Is in a great hurry: in such a hurry that she gets 

fatigued. 

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MEDOKRHINUM— (Continued). 

Cannot speak without crying (Puis.). 

Bubbling' sensation in right kidney (left kidney, 
Serb.). 

Nocturnal eneuresis ; urine strongly ammoniacal. 

Ghnorrhosa ; acuU , chronic or suppressed. 

For the constitutional effects of suppressed gonor- 
rhoea, when the best selected remedy fails to relieve or 
permanently improve ; rheumatism, ovaritis, salpin- 
gitis; pelvic cellulitis. 

MEKCUKIUS. 

Best adapted for light-haired persons; skin and 
muscles lax. 

In bone diseases pains worse at night; glandular 
swelling with or without suppuration, but especially 
if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.). 

Profuse perspiration attends nearly every complaint, 
but does not relieve ; may even increase the suffering 
(profuse perspiration relieves, Nat. m., Psor., Verat.). 

Great weakness and trembling from least exertion. 

Ptyalism ; profuse, fetid, metallic-tasting saliva. 

Dysentery; stool slimy, bloody, with colic and 
fainting; great tenesmus during and after, followed 
by chilliness and a " cannot finish " sensation. The 
more blood, the better indicated. 

Morning sickness ; profuse salivation, wets the pil- 
low in sleep (Lac. ac). 

Mammae painful, as if they would ulcerate at every 
menstrual period; milk in breasts instead of the 
menses. 

Leucorrhcea: acrid, burning, itching with rawness; 
always worse at night. 

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HEBCUBIUS- Omtm 

Cough; dry, fatiguing, racking; in two parox- 
ysms; worst at night; with utter inability to lie 
right side. 

Tongue large, flabby, Bhowe imprinl !h©L. 

Pod., Rhut 

[ntense thirst, although the tongue look.- moist and 
the saliva is profile 

Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount 
of water drank. 

Nocturnal emissions Btained with Mood. 

Dicers on the gums, tongue, throat, inside of the 
cheek, with profuse salivation; irregular in shape, 
(■due- undefined; have a dirty, unhealthy look; lar- 
daceous babe surrounded with a dark halo: ap1 to run 
together (syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack the pos- 
terior parts of mouth, throat, and have well-defined 
edges, an- surrounded with a coppery hue, and do 
not extend from their primary 

Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with pr< iliva- 

tion. 

Diphtheria: tonsils inflamed, uvula swollen, elon- 
gated, constant cL sin to swallow ; membrane thick, gray, 
shred-like borders adherent or tr 

Relations. — Follows well after: Bell., Hep., Lach., 
Bulph., but should not be given before or after 
Bilicea. 

The had effects of Merc are antidoted by Aur., 
Hep., Lach., Mez., Nit. ac., Bulph., and by a high 
potency of More, when the symptoms correspond. 

Ailments from sugar, insect stings, vapors of ar- 
senic or copper. 

Aggravations. — At night: wet, damp weather: in 

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MERCURIUS— ( Continued). 

autumn, warm days and cold, damp nights; lying on 
right side ; perspiring. 

Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest in bed. 

Arsenic is > by heat of, but < by rest in bed. 

MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS. 

Diseases of men, syphilitic ; ulcers, with corroding, 
acrid pus ; Bright's disease. 

Dysentery and summer complaints of intestinal 
canal, occurring from May to November. 

MERCURIUS PROTO IODIDE. 

Diphtheritic and throat affections where the cervical 
and parotid glands are enormously swollen. 

Tongue, thick, yellow coating at base, tip and edges 
red ; right side of throat and neck most affected. 

MERCURIUS BINIODIDE. 

Diphtheritic and glandular affections of left side; 
exudation slight, easily detached; cases attending 
epidemic scarlet fever, ulcers on fauces or tonsils; 
glands enlarged. 

MERCURIUS CYANIDE. 

Malignant diphtheria w^ith intense redness of fauces 
and great difficulty of swallowing ; pseudo-membra- 
nous formation extends all over fauces and down 
throat; putrid, gangrenous diphtheria, with phage- 
denic ulceration ; membranous croup. 

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MERCUKIUS soijhilis. 

I)i of tin-. -kin; glandular and scrofulous af- 

bione of children; acrid nasal secretion, "dirty-m ■ 

children." 

Bahnemann'fi remedy for syphilid and i 

the genito-urinary tract. I- rarely Indicated if 

tongue La dry, 

MERCUBIUS SILPII. 

Bydrothorax, if occurring from hearl or liver dis- 
- : dyspnoea, hae nnot lie down. I 

tremities swollen ; stool loose, wi 
burning and soreness; burning in ei 

"When it acta well it produces a profuse, watery 
diarrhoea with greal relief to the patient; it is as im- 
portant ae Arsenicum in hydrothorax*" — Lippb. 

Relations. — Coin].;; - ph. 

MEZEKEUM. 

For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmal 
temperament. 
Eczema and itching eruptions after vaccination. 

Hypochondriacal and despondent : indifferent 
everything and every on< ^vy at trifles and ; 

fectly harmless things, bo a Borry for it. 

Headache violent after Blight vexation; painful on 
the Blightesl touch. 

The head ifl covered with a thick, leather-like cm 

under which thick and white pus collects here and 
there; hair is glued and matted together; pus after a 
time is ichorous, becomes offensive and breeds vermin. 
Dicers with thick, yellowish-whit under 

which thick, yellow pus collects. 

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MEZEREUM- ( Continued) . 

Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, 
burn like fire (Hep.) ; fiery-red areola around, shining 
like fire. 

Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed 
when it is torn away. 

Eczema : intolerable itching ; copious, serous exu- 
dation. 

Neuralgic burning pains after zona. 

Bones inflamed, swollen ; nightly pains going from 
above downwards; after abuse of Merc, venereal dis- 
eases, caries. 

Child scratches face continually, which is covered 
with blood ; eruptions moist ; itching worse at night ; 
inflammatory redness of face. 

Relations Compare: Caust., Guaiac, Phyt., 

Rhus. 

Aggravation. — Cold air ; cold washing ; at night ; 
touch or motion ; bad effects of mercury or alcohol. 

Epidemics occurring in January and February often 
call for Mezereum. 

MELILOTUS. 

Congestions, relieved by hemorrhage. 

Engorgement of blood-vessels in any part or organ. 

Violent congestive or nervous headaches ; epistaxis 
affords relief (Bufo, Ferr. p., Magn. s.). 

Religious melancholy with an intensely red face ; 
insanity, in early stages, to relieve brain from pressure 
and irritation. 

Nosebleed preceded by intense redness, flushing of 
face and throbbing of carotids ; with general relief. 

Very red face precedes hemorrhage from every organ. 

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melilotus- 

Relations. — Compai [YL.; Ant. c. in epi 

after headache, but does nol relieve; Bbll., Ql 

a. in c< i • headache, red face, hot In 

MILLEFOLIUM. 

Ailments: from overlifting a tall. 

Hemorrhages: painless, without fever; bright r 
fluid blood ,Sab.); from lungs, bronchi, 

larynx, mouth, n<>-< . stomach, bladder, rectum, 
of mechanical origin ; of wounds (Ham. 

Wounds which bleed profusely -ally after a tall. 

Hemoptysis: after injury, in incipient phtl 
hemorrhoidal patients. 

Painless drainings, after labor <>r abortion; i 
certion ; after miscarriage. Preventive, in i 
partum hemorrhag 

Menses : early, profuse, protract 
with colic pain in abdom< 

Leucorrhoea of children from atony. 

Vertigo; when moving slowly, but not when taking 
violent exercie 

Relations. — Compare : Erbght. in epu 
moptysis, blood bright red. Followswell after A 
and Arn, in hemorrhag 

MURIATIC U ID. 

Adapted to persons witli black hair, dark eyes, dark 
complexion. 

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin 
(Xux): restlessness and verti_ 

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MURIATIC ACID— (Continued). 

Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, uncon- 
sciousness, fretful ness. 

Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo- 
like membranous deposits of intestinal tract. 

Great debility: as soon as he sits down his eyes 
close : "lower jaw hangs down ; slides down in bed. 

Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue 
and sphincter ani are paralyzed. 

If the anus be very sensitive either with or without 
hemorrhoids. 

Hemorrhoids : swollen, blue ; painful to touch ; ap- 
pears suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, 
even the sheet is uncomfortable. Prolapse while uri- 
nating. 

Diarrhoea : stool involuntary while urinating ; on 
passing wind; cannot urinate without having the 
bowels move at the same time. 

Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a 
long time ; has to press so that anus protrudes. 

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face. 

Freckles; eczema Solaris. 

Relations. — Follows well after: Bry., Mer., Rhus. 

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive 
use of Opium. 

NAJA TRIPUDIANS. 

Simple hypertrophy of heart. 

For restoring a heart damaged by acute inflamma- 
tion, or for relief of sufferings during chronic hyper- 
trophy. 

Irritating cough in the acute stage of rheumatic 
carditis. 

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NAJA TRIIM 1)1 \\S 

Threatened paralysis of heart, post-diphtheritic. 

Pulse irregular in force, bul r< gular in rhythm. 

[liability to speak, with choking, nervous, chroi 
palpitation; pain < by carriage ridii 

Severe stitching pain in region of h< 

Relations. — Compare : A i- - .. l 
Myg., Spig. 

NATBUM CARBONICUBL 

Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike 
to exercise, mental or physical. 

Oreat debility : caused by heat of sumi baustion 

from Leasl effort, mental or physical ; ready to drop 
after a walk : chronic i 

Emaciation with pale face, dilated pupil-, dark 
urine, anaemic, milky, watery skin and great debility. 

Inability to think or to perform any mental lab 
feels stupefied if he tries to exerl himself. 

Intolerable melancholy and apprehension ; is wholly 
occupied with sad thoughts. 

Attacks oi anxiety and restlessness during a thun- 
der storm (Phos.); < from music (Sab.). 

Face pale, with blue rings around tie 
lids swollen : catarrh; mucus in throat and posterior 
nares; constantly hawking to clear the throat; drop- 
ping into the throat from posterior nar< 

Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embr 

causing sterility. 

Aversion to milk; diarrhoea from it. 

Relations. — Compare: Nat. >.. for yeast-like vom- 
iting; Calc, Sep. 

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NATRUM CAIlBOmClML— (Continued). 

Aggravations. — From music ; in the sun ; excessive 

summer heat ; mental exertion. 

KATRUM MURIATICUM. 

Great emaciation; losing flesh while living well (Abrot., 
Iod.) ; throat and neck of children emaciate rapidly 
during summer complaint (Sanic). 

Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weak- 
ness (Apis, Bov.). 

Marked disposition to weep; sad weeping mood, 
without cause ; consolation from others < her troubles. 

Great liability to take cold (Calc, Kali a). 

Headache : of school girls (Calc. p.) ; from sunrise 
to sunset ; left-sided clavus ; as if bursting ; with red 
face, nausea and vomiting before, during and after 
menses; as though a thousand little hammers were 
knocking in the brain during fever ; > by perspiration. 

Lachrymation ; tears stream down the face when- 
ever he coughs. 

Hay fever : squirming sensation in the nostril, as of 
a small worm ; brought on by exposure to hot sun or 
intense summer heat. 

Constipation : sensation of contraction of anus ; 
torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards ; stool, hard, diffi- 
cult, crumbling, stitches in rectum (Nit. a.); involun- 
tary ; knows not whether flatus or faeces escape (Aloe, 
Iod., Mur. ac, Pod.). 

Urine : involuntary when walking, coughing, 
laughing (Caust, Puis., Scilla); has to wait a long 
while for urine to pass, if others are present. (Com- 
pare Hep., Mur. ac). 

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NATBUM MI 'III ATM SUM 

Pi . pushing toward genitals every morning 

musl .-it down to prevent prolapsus (Lil., Mm-.. 

The hair falls oul when touched, in nursing women 

[».j : face oily, shiny, as ii -1. 

For the bad effects : of i caused by offi 

acid food, bread, quinine, of Bait ; cau- 

terizations of all kinds with the silver nitrate; 
animal fluid.-. 

Hangnails: skin around the nails dry and cracked 
(Graph., Pet.); herpes ahout anus and on borders 
hair at nape of neck (in bend of knees, Hep., < l^rap] 

Dreams; of rohbers in the h< don waking 

will not believe to the contrary until search is made 
1 1 '- >r.) : of burning thi 

Fever blisters like pearls ahoul the lips; lips dry 
and cracked. 

Painful contractions of the hamsti 
Guaiac.). 

I iraving for sail (( Sal 

Urticaria, acute or chronic; over whole body; 

cially alter violent exercifi 

[ntermittents ; paroxysm at 10 or 11 a.m.: old, 
chronic, badly treated cat tally after supp 

sion by quinine. 

Relations. — Complementary to: A]- - well 

before and after it. 

Nat. m. is the chronic of Ign. 

Is followed by Sepia and Thuja. 

Cannot often be repeated in chronic ithout 

an intercurrent, called for by the symptoms. 

Should never be given during the paroxysm of 
fever. 

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NATRUM MUKIATICUM— (Continued). 

If vertigo and headache be very persistent, or 
prostration be prolonged after Natrum, Nux will re- 
lieve. 

Aggravation. — At 10 or 11 a.m. ; at the seashore 
or from sea air: heat of sun or stove; mental ex- 
ertion, talking, writing, reading; lying down. 

Amelioration. — In the open air (Puis.) ; cold bath- 
ing; going without regular meals; lying on right 
side (Mer. — on painful side, Bry., Ign., Puis.) 

NATRUM SULPHURICUM. 

Ailments which are <. by, or which depend upon, 
dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars. 

Patient feels every change from dry to wet ; cannot 
tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water ; 
a constitution in which the gonorrhceal poison is most 
pernicious. 

Every spring ; skin affections reappear (Psor.). 

Sad, gloomy, irritable; worse in morning; dislikes 
to speak or be spoken to (Iod., Sil.). 

Depressed ; "lively music makes her sad ; satiety of 
life ; must use great self-control to prevent shooting 
himself. 

Mental traumatism ; mental effects from injuries to 
head; chronic effects of blows, falls. 

Granular lids: like small blisters (Thuja); green 
pus and terrible photophobia ; gonorrhoeal or sycotic. 

Nosebleed during menses. 

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coft'., Puis.). 

Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. 

Diarrhoea: sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus; 

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NATBUM 8ULPHUBICXJM ed). 

on first rising and standing on the feet; al spell 

of we1 weather. 

( lonorrhc eenish-yellow, painless, thick dis- 

charge (Puis, ) : chronic or suppressed. 

Humid asthma in children; with every chai _ 
wet weather; with every fresh cold; alwaj in 

damp, rainy weather; sputa green or greenish, copi- 
ous. 

BycQtic pneumonia; lower lobe oflefl lung; duri 
cough, has to -it ap in bed and hold the chest with 

both hand-. 

Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pai 
at base of brain ; head drawn back ; spasms with men- 
tal irritability and delirium; violent congestion of 
blood to head ; delirium ; opisthoton 

Relations. — Compare Nat. m. and Bulph., which 
are very similar; Thuja and Mr.i;<. in syphilis and 
sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitute 



NITRIC ACID. 

Especially suited to thin persona of rigid fibre, dark 
complexions, black hair and eyes — the brunette rather 
than the blonde — nervous temperament. 

Persons suffering with chronic diseases who take 
cold easily; are easily disposed to diarrhoea; rarelj 
those who sutler with constipation. 

Old people with great weakness and diarrh 

Excessive physical irritability. 

Pains: sticking, pricking as from splinters; sud- 
denly appearing and disappearing: on change of tem- 

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NITRIC ACID— (Continued). 

perature or weather; during sleep; gnawing here and 
there as from ulcers forming. 

Ailments: which depend on some virulent poison ; 
from mercury, syphilis, scrofula; in hroken-down 
cachectic constitutions. 

Great anxiety about his disease ; constantly thinking 
about his past troubles ; morbid fear of cholera (Ars.). 

After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety ; 
overexertion of mind and body from nursing the sick 
(Coc); anguish from the loss of his dearest friend (Ign.). 

Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; in- 
veterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies. 

Ozena : green casts from the nose every morning. 

Diarrhoea : great straining but little passes, as if 
fieces remained and cannot be expelled (Alum.) ; pain 
as if rectum and anus were torn or fissured (Nat. m.) ; 
violent cutting pains after stool, lasting for hours 
(Sulph.). 

Urine : scanty, dark brown, strong-smelling, " like 
horse's urine ;" cold when it passes ; turbid, looks like 
remains of a cider barrel. 

Ulcers : easily bleeding ; splinter-like pains, espe- 
cially on contact ; zigzag, irregular edges ; base looks 
like raw flesh ; exuberant granulations ; after mercury 
or syphilis or both, engrafted on a scrofulous base. 

Hemorrhage : from bowels in typhoid or typhus 
(Crot., Mur. ac); after miscarriage or post-partum; 
from overexertion of body. 

Cracking in ears on masticating; of the joints on 
motion (Coc, Graph.). 

Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets; 
headache from pressure of the hat (Cal. p.). 

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NITRIC A< II) Omtinu* 

Affects especially the mucous outlets of the body, 
mouth, aose, rectum, anus, urethra, ragina (Mur. b 

Relations. — Complementary to: A.rs« and Calad. 

[nimical to Lach< 

Resembles ; Ars. in morbid G 

Often difficult to distinguish from Merc. ; but is 
adapted to black-haired people, while Merc, is m 
useful in light-haired persons. 

Believes ailments resulting from a mercury, 

especially if there be erethism ; bad vted 

doses of Digitalis. 

Follow.- well after: Calc., Bep. or Thuja; bu1 
most effective after Kali c. 

Aggravation. — Evening and at night; after mid- 
night, contact; change of temperature or weather; 
during sweat; on waking; while walkii 

Amelioration. — While riding in a 
verse of Coc). 

MX BIOSCHATA. 

Adapted especially to women and children of a n< 
vous hysterica] temperament (Ign.); to people with a 
dry skin, who rarely perspi 

All the ailments are accompanied by draw 
sleepiness (Ant. t) or an inclination to faint; coi 
cause sleepin 

Absence of mind; cannot think: great indifference 
to everything. 

Changeable humor: one moment laughing, the next 
crving (Ign.) ; " sudden change from grave to gay. 
from lively to severe." 

Great dryness of the mouth ; tongue so dry it adheres 

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NUX MOSCHATA— (Continued). 

to roof of mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat 
dry, stiffened, no thirst (Puis.). 

Sensation of groat dryness without real thirst and 
without actual dryness of the tongue. 

Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies. 
Tendency to bedsores (Bap.). 

Eating a little too much causes headache. 

Abdomen enormously distended, after every meal. 

Diarrhoea : in summer, from cold drinks ; epidemic 
in autumn, white stools (Colch.) ; from boiled milk; 
during dentition; during pregnancy ; with sleepiness 
and fainting. 

At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat and tongue 
become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping. 

Leucorrhcea in place of menses (Coc); patient 
awakened with dry tongue (compare Lach.) ; physo- 
metra (Lac c, Lye). 

Pain, nausea and vomiting from wearing pessaries. 

Sudden hoarseness, < from walking against the 
wind (Euph., Hep.). 

Cough caused by : getting warm in bed ; being over- 
heated ; during pregnancy (Con.) ; bathing ; standing 
in water; living in cold, damp places; loose after eat- 
ing ; dry after drinking. 

Backache, while riding in a carriage. 

Fatigue, must lie down after the least exertion^ 

Dryness of eyes ; too dry to close the lids. 

Relations. — Nux Moschata antidotes mercurial in- 
halation, lead colic, oil of turpentine, spirituous liquors, 
and especially the effects of bad beers. 

Aggravation. — Cold, wet, windy weather (Rhocl.); 
cold food, water and cold washing; carriage driving 

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MX MOS< IIATA OonHntu 

(Coc); lying on painful Bide (on painless ride, 
Pule 

Amelioration. — In dry, warm weather, warm room. 
wrapping up warmly. 

NUX VOMICA. 

Adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous ] 
with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperam* 
Disposed to be quarrelsome and malicious; nerv 
and nlelancholic. 

Debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition ; 
prone to indigestion and hemorrhoids. 

"Nux is chiefly successful with per an ardent 

character; of an irritable, impatient temperament, dis- 
ed to anger, spite or deception." — Eahnbmai 

Oversensitive: to externa] impressions; to ooii 
odors, lighl or music; trifling ailments are unbear- 
able; every harmless word offends (Ign«). 

Persons who are very particular, careful, but inclined to 
become easily excited or angered; irascible and tenaci 

Bad effects of: coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants; 
highly spiced or seasoned food; overeating; long- 
continued over-mental exertion: sedentary habil 

of sleep (Coc., Colch.) ; aromatic or patent medicil 

jutting on eold stones, especially in warm weather. 
One of the best remedies with which to commei 

treatment <)\' eases that have been drugged by mix- 
tures, bitters, vegetable pills, nostrums or quack reme- 
dies, especially aromatic or " hot medicines/ 3 it' symp- 
toms correspond. 

Convulsions, with consciousness : < anger, emotion, 
touch, moving. 

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NUX VOMICA— (Continued). 

Pains arc tingling, sticking, hard, aching, worse 
from motion and contact. 

Tendency to faint (Sulph.); from oclors, in morning, 
after eating, after every labor pain. 

Cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening 
while sitting or reading hours before bedtime, and 
awakes at 3 or 4 a.m. ; falls into a dreamy sleep at day- 
break from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels 
tired and weak (reverse of, Puis.). 

Eructations: sour, bitter; nausea and vomiting 
every morning with depression of spirits ; after eating. 

Constipation ; with frequent unsuccessful desire, 
passing small quantities of feces, sensation as if not 
finished. 

Frequent desire for stool ; anxious, ineffectual ; in 
morning after rising; after eating; after mental exer- 
tion. 

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea (Sulph., Ver.), 
in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives. 

Labor pains; violent, spasmodic; cause urging to 
stool or to urinate ; < in back. 

Strangulated hernia, especially umbilical. 

Backache ; must sit up to turn over in bed ; lum- 
bago ; from sexual weakness. 

Catarrh; snuffles of infants; coryza, dry at night* 
fluent by day ; worse in warm room, better in cold 
air. 

Repugnance to cold or to cold air; chilly, on least 
movement; from being uncovered; must be covered 
in every stage of fever — chill, heat or sweat. 

Relations. — Complementary : Sulphur in almost all 
diseases. 

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MX VOMICA / 

[nimical to: Zinc; must nol be used before or after. 

Follow- well after: Ars., [pec, Phos., Sulph. 

[e followed well by: Bry., Puis., Sulph. 

Xux Bhould be given on retiring or, what 

era! hours before going to bed; it acta best do 
repose of* mind and body. 

Aggravation. — Morning; mental exertion ; after 
eating or overeating ; touch, noi nar- 

cotics, dry weather. 

Amelioration. — In evening, while at rest; lying 
down and in damp, we< weather (Caust). 

OPIUM, 

Especially adapted to children and old people; dis- 
i first and second childhood (Bar. c, Mill.). 

Ailments: thai originate from fright; bad 'tr- 
ot', the fear still remainii from char- 
coal vapors: inhaling gas : of drunkards. 

All complaints: with gn ■; paint 

of nothing, wants nothing. 

Screaming before or during a spi 11.). 

Deep stertorous respiration both on inhalation and 
exhalation. 

Bleep: heavy, stupid; with stertorous breathing, 
face, eyes half-closed; after convulsions. 

Sleepy, but cannot Bleep (Bell., Cham.); sleepless- 
ness with acuteness of hearing, clock Btriking and 
cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake. 

Loss of breath on falling asleep (Grind.. Lad 

Bed fools so hot she cannot lie on it: moves often in 
Bearch of a cool place : must be uncovered (Arm. Bap.). 

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OPIUM— (Continued). 

Want of susceptibility to remedies ; lack of vital reac- 
tion, the well chosen remedy makes no impression 
(Carbo v.). 

Digestive organs inactive: peristaltic motion reversed 
or paralvzed: bowels seem closed. 

Constipation: of children; of corpulent, good- 
natured women (Graph.); from inaction or paresis; 
from lead poisoning; stool hard, round, black balls 
(Chel., Plumb., Thuja); protrude and recede (Sil.). 

Stool : involuntary, especially after fright (Gels.) ; 
black and offensive. 

Urine : retained, with bladder full ; retained, post- 
partum; in nursing children, after passion of nurse; in 
fever or acute illness ; paralysis of bladder. 

(In Stramonium we have suppression; while in 
Opium the secretion is not diminished, the bladder is 
full but fullness is unrecognized.) 

" Opium renders the intestines so sluggish that the 
most active purgatives lose their power. " — Hering. 

" Persistent diarrhoea in those treated with large 
doses of the drug/' — Lippe. 

Delirium tremens: in old, emaciated persons; bloated 
face, stupor, eyes burning, hot, dry; with loud snoring. 

Delirium, constantly talking; eyes wide open, face 
red, puffed; or unconscious, eyes glassy, half-closed, 
face pale, deep coma. 

Thinks she is not at home (Bry.) ; this is continually 
in her mind. 

Picking of bed clothes during sleep (while awake, 
Bell., Hyos.). 

Sudden retrocession of acute exanthema results in 
paralysis of brain or convulsions (Zinc). 

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OPIUM- 

Relations. — Antidotes, for poi >ng 

coffee, Nux, Kali per. and constant motion. When 
symptoms correspond, the potencies may antidote bad 
effects of Opium druggii 

Compare Apis, Bbll., Byos., Btram. and Zinc. 

Aggravation. — Daring and afl 
Lach.); while perspiring; from warmth; stimulants. 

Amelioration. — From cold: constant walkii 

PETROLEUM. 

Adapted to persona with light hair and skin; irri- 
table, quarrelsome disposition iXn\ ily offended 
at trifles ; vexed at everythii 

Symptom- appear and disappear rapidly (Bell. — re- 
verse of, Plat., Stan. ). 

During sleep or delirium ; in 
double: that another person lies alongside of him in 
the same l>ed: that there are two babies in the ] 

Vertigo on rising | Bry. iput ; as if intoxicated ; 

Uk( seasickn 

Eeadache: in occiput, which is as h lead; pi 

big, pulsating pain: as if everything in the head w< 
alive: numb, bruised: as it" made of wood. 

Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing 
pains; whenever stomach is empty; relieved bye 
Btant eating (Chel., Sep. |. 

Ailments: from riding in a carriage or railroad car, 
or in a ship (Coc., Sanic.). 

Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all 
clothing is painful (Bell., Lach.). 

Skin of hands rough, cracked ; tips of fingers rough, 

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PETROLEUM— (Continued). 

cracked, fissured : tenderness of the feet, which are 
bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic, Sil.). 

Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of 
hands (Sang., Sulph.). 

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes. 

Ailments which are worse before and during a 
thunderstorm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor.). 

Painful, itching chilblains and chaps; decubitus. 

Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carbo an., 
Kali in., Xat. m.). 

Relations.-H0ne of our best antidotes for lead 
poisoning. 

The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in 
summer (Alum.). 

Aggravation. — Carriage riding (Coc, Sanic); dur- 
ing a thunderstorm ; in winter. 



PHOSPHORIC ACID. 

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitu- 
tions, who have become debilitated by loss of animal 
fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.), violent, acute dis- 
eases, chagrin, or a long succession of moral emo- 
tions, as grief, care, disappointed affection. 

Ailments : from grief, sorrow, homesickness; sleepy, 
disposed to weep ; night-sweats towards morning. 

Mild, yielding disposition (Puis.). 

Is listless , apathetic ; indifferent to the affairs of life ; to 
those things that used to be of most interest. 

Delirium : quiet, with great stupor; can be aroused, 
when he answers slowly and correctly or short and in- 
correctly, and relapses into a stupor (Arm, Bap.). 

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PHOSPHORIC \( ID- ri). 

[n children and young ]>•■<, ]>!<• who -row too rapidly 
(( !aL, Cal. phos.) ; pains in back and limbfl as it 

School girl's headache ; from eye-strain or overuse 
of eyes (Cal. p., Nat ijl). 

Patient trembL k, stumbles easily or makes 

missteps. 

[nterstitial inflammation of bon< ofulous, 

otic, syphilitic, mercurial ; periosteum in Han 
pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife 
(Rhus); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis. 

Boring, drawing, d pains in ne emi- 

ties; neurosis in stump after amputations (Cepj 

Urine: look- like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody 
pieces; decomposes rapidly; proj airtight 

of clear, watery urine, which forms a whit 1 at 

onc< 

Onanism: when patienl tlv disi by the 

culpability of the ad (Compare, Dios., Staph.). 

Tale, sickly complexion, eyes sunken and surrounded 
by blue margins. 

Diarrhoea: painlesss; nol debilitating; from a 
involuntary, with the flatus (Aloe. Nat, m.); choleraic, 
from tear. 

Cerebral typhoid or typhus; complete apathy and 
Btupor; intestinal hemorrhage, Mood dark. 

Relations. — Compare: Phos., Tils., Vu \ AC, SlL.; 
Mur. ac. in typhoid; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic Btupor 
and delirium. 

Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch, in colli- 
quative sweats. 

Diarrhoea and debility: after Nux in fainting after 
a meal. 

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PHOSPHORUS. 

Adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine tem- 
perament, fair skin, blonde or red hair, quick percep- 
tions, and very sensitive nature. 

Young people, who grow rapidly, are inclined to 
Btoop (to walk stooped, Sulph.); who are chlorotic or 
amemie. 

Apathetic; unwilling to talk; answers slowly; moves 
sluggishly (Phos. ac). 

Weary of life, full of gloomy forebodings. 

Great weakness and prostration : with nervous debil- 
ity and trembling; of whole body; weakness and weari- 
ness from loss of vital fluids (Cinch.). 

Sensation of weakness and emptiness in head, 
stomach or abdomen. 

Longs for: cold food and drink; juicy, refreshing 
things ; ice cream > gastric pains. 

As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is 
thrown up. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; small wounds bleed pro- 
fusely (Lach.). 

Hemorrhage : frequent and profuse, pouring out 
freely and then ceasing for a time ; hemoptysis ; me- 
trorrhagia, in cancer; vicarious, from nose, stomach, 
anus, urethra, in amenorrhcea. 

Constipation; faeces slender, long, dry, tough and 
hard; voided with great straining and difficulty (Caust.). 

Regurgitation of ingesta, in mouthfuls (Alum.). 

Xausea from placing hands in warm water; sneez- 
ing and coryza from putting hands in water. 

Diarrhoea : as soon as anything enters the rectum ; 
profuse, pouring away as from a hydrant; w 7 atery, with 
sago-like particles; sensation, as if the anus remained 

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PHOSPHORUS 

: involuntary; daring cholera time (which 
precedes cholera, Ph morni >le. 

Daring pregnancy; unable to drink wi 
it causes vomiting; musl doe a while bat] 

(Lji 

Cannol talk, the larynx is bo painful: cough, _ 
from warm to cold air | rev. rom 

laughing, talking, reading, _ lefl 

Bide. 

Pain: acute, especially in the chest, worse from 
pressure, even Blight, ; /' ; ?, and lying 

left 

Perspiration has the odor of sulphur. 
>f the (left) lower jaw. 

Relations. — Complementary to senic, with 

which it is also in isomorphic relation. 

[ncompatible : With Causticum, must no! be used 

Phos. removea the bad efl CocL and i 

use of table salt. Follows well after Calc. or Cinch. 

Hahnemann says : "Acta most beneficial when pa- 
tient Buffers from chronic loose -tool or diarrho 

Aggravation. — Evening, before midnight 
Rhus); lying on left or pain f . during a thunder- 

Cold air relieves the head and face Bymptoms but 
aggravates those of chest, throat and neck. 

PODOPHYLLUM. 

Adapted to persons of bilious temperament who 
sutler from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially 
after abuse of mercury, 

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PODOPHYLLUM— (Continued). 

Tains : sudden shocks of jerking pains. 

Depression of spirits, imagines he is going to die or 
be very ill (Ars.). 

Headache alternates with diarrhoea (Aloe); head- 
ache in winter, diarrhoea in summer. 

Painless cholera morbus. 

Violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs ; watery, pain- 
less stools. 

Difficult dentition; moaning, grinding the teeth 
at night; head hot and rolling from side to side 
(Bell.). 

Diarrhoea: of long standing; early in morning, con- 
tinues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in 
evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sensation of weak- 
ness or sinking in abdomen or rectum. 

Diarrhoea of children : during teething ; after eat- 
ing ; while being bathed or washed ; dirty water 
soaking napkin through. 

Stool : green, watery, fetid, profuse (Calc.) ; gush- 
ing out (Gamb., Jat,, Phos.); chalk-like, jelly-like 
(Aloe); undigested (Cinch., Ferr.); yellow meal-like 
sediment; prolapse of rectum before or with stool. 

Prolapsus uteri : from overlifting or straining ; from 
constipation ; after parturition ; with subinvolution. 

In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably 
only on stomach. 

Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the re- 
gion of liver with his hands. 

Fever paroxysm at 7 a.m., with great loquacity during 
chfll and heat ; sleep during perspiration. 

Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypoehon- 
drium (Lye). 

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PODOPHYLLUM 

Relations. — Compare: Aloe, Chel., Collin., Lil.. 
Merc, Nux, Sulph. 

It antidotes the bad effects of Mercury. 

After: [pec, Nux. in gastric affections; after, Calc. 
and Sulph. in liver <li- 

Aggravation. — In early morning (Aloe, Nux, 
Bulph.) : in hot weather. 

PICRIC ACID. 

I- often restorative of a wasted and worn-oul 

trin. 

Progressive, pernicious, anaemia; neurasthenia. 

Brain-fag: of literary or business peopL ; 
excitement, mental exertion or overwork brings on 
headache, and causes burning along the spii 

Eeadache: of students and overworked business 
men; from grief or depr emotions; in occipito- 

cervical region. 

Priapism, with spinal di violent, 

long-lasting; profuse seminal emi 

Small l>oils in any pari of bodj tally in ext< 

nal auditory canal. 

Burning along spine and weakn* 3 spine 

and l>ark : Boftening of <<>rd. 

Relations. — Compare: Arg. n.. Gels., Kali p., 

V\\o<. AC., Thus.. PbT., >IL. 

Amelioration. — From cold air and cold water. 

PLATIXA. 

Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre : thin, of 

a sanguine temperament : who sutler from too early 

and too profuse mens* 

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PLATINA— ( Continued). 

Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive ; cannot bear 
the napkin to touch her; will go into spasms from an 
examination; will faint during, or cannot endure, 
coition. 

For hysterical patients; alternately gay and sad, 
who cry easily; pale, easily fatigued. 

Arrogant, proud, contemptuous, and haughty ; 
pitiful " looking down " upon people usually vener- 
ated. 

Mental delusions as if everything about her were 
small; all persons physically and mentally inferior, 
but she physically large and superior. 

Sensation as if growing larger in every direc- 
tion. 

Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms dis- 
appear, and vice versa. 

Nymphomania, < in lying-in state ; excessive sexual 
development especially in virgins (Kali p.); vagi- 
nismus. 

Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting ; dark 
clotted, with bearing down spasms ; pains in uterus 
with twitching ; genitalia sensitive. 

Excessive itching in uterus. 

Constipation: while travelling; after lead poisoning ; 
from inertia of bowels ; frequent, unsuccessful urging ; 
stools adhere to rectum and anus like soft clay (Alum.) ; 
obstinate cases after ISTux has failed ; of emigrants ; of 
pregnancy. 

Metrorrhagia : flow in black clots and fluid ; thick, 
black, tarry or in grumous mass (Croc). 

Relations. — Compare: Aur., Croc, Ign., Kali p., 
Puls., Sep., Sulph. ■ 

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PHYTOLACCA. 

Patients of a rheumatic diathesis; rheumatism of 
fibrous and periostea] tissue. 

Occupies a position between Bryonia and Rim- ; 
when these fail, though apparently well indicated. 

Pain- flying like electri . lanci- 

nating; rapidly shifting (Lac c, Puis, 
motion and at night. 

Mamma' full of hard, painful nod 

Breast; shows an early tendency to inflame 
lling and suppuration; especially when suppura- 
tion is inevitable ; when child mux- i rom 
nipple all over 1mh| to back, I 

Tumefied ln-rast neither heals nor suppui 

purple hue and " hard a- old ch< 

Great exhaustion and profound prostration. 
In rheumatism and neuralgia after diphtheria, u r on- 
orrhosa, mercury or syphilis* 

Bore throat: of a dark red Color; uvula lai _ 

almost translucent (Kali hi.. Rhus). 

Diphtheria: pain- shoot from throat into ears on 
swallowing; great pain at root <>t" tongue when swal- 
lowing; burning y at 

(Inii difficult to swallow with trembling of the 

hands: sensation of a lump in the throat witli i 
tinuous desire to -wallow: tonsils, uvula and hack 
part of throat covered with ash-colored membrane; 
cannot drink hot fluid- (Lack). 

Carotid and submaxillary glands indurated, ftfl 
diphtheria, scarlet fever. 

Hastens suppuration (Hep., Mer., Bil.). 

Aggravation. — When it rains ; exposure to damp, 
cold weather. 

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PLUMBUM. 

idapted to diseases from spinal origin. 

Excessive and rapid emaciation; general or partial 
paralysis: extreme, with anaemia and great weakness. 

Muscular atrophy from sclerosis of cerebro-spinal 
system. 

Lassitude: faints on going into a room full of com- 
pany. 

Slow of perception ; intellectual torpor, gradually 
increasing apathy (in fevers, Phos. ac). 

Weakness or loss of memory; unable to find the 
proper word (Anac., Lac a). 

Assumes the strangest attitudes and positions in 
bed. 

Complexion: pale, ash-color, yellow, corpse-like, 
cheeks sunken ; expressive of great anxiety and suf- 
fering. 

Skin of face, greasy, shiny (Nat. m.). 

Distinct blue line along margin of gums ; gums 
swollen, pale, show a lead-colored line. 

Excessive pain in abdomen, radiating to all parts of 
body. 

Sensation in abdomen at night, which causes patient 
to stretch violently for hours ; must stretch in every 
direction. 

Violent colic, sensation as if abdominal loall was drawn 
as if by a string to the spine. 

Intussusception, with colic and fecal vomiting; 
strangulated hernia. 

Constipation : stools hard, lumpy, black like sheep- 
dung; with urging and terrible pain from spasm of 
anus. 

Bright's disease: colic pains; abdomen retracted; 

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PLUMBUM- Ocmtinu* 

rapid emaciation; « debility; contract 

kidney. 

Spasms: clonic; tonic; from cerebral sclerosis or 
tumor; epilepsy or epileptiform convuh 

Yellow skin; dark brown M livei " in climac- 

teric years ; jaundice. 

Relations. — Compare: Alum., Plat., Op., in 
Pod. in retraction of navel. 

The bad effects of Plumbum are antidoted by Alum., 
Petr., I Mat., Sulph. ac., Zinc 

Aggravation. — A1 night (pain- in liml 

Amelioration. — Rubbing; hard pr< 

PSORINUM. 

Especially adapted to the psoric constitutio 

Extremely psoric patients; nen asily 

startled. 

Sleepless from intolerable itching, or frightful dreams 
of robbers, danger, etc, < Nat. n 

In chronic cases when well selected remedies tail to 
relieve or permanently improve (in acute di 
Bulph.); when Sulphur seems indicated but tail- 
act. 

Lack of reaction after Bevere acute disease 9. Ap- 
petite will not return. 

Children are pale, delicate, sickly, sick babies will 
not sleep day or night but worry, fret, cry (.Take 

child is good, plays all day: restless, troublesome, 

screaming all night. 

Great weakness and debility; from loss of animal 
fluids; remaining after acute di : independent 

of or without any organic lesion. 

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PSORINUM— (Continued). 

Despairs of recovery; hopeless, thinks he will die. 

Body has a tilth// smell, even after bathing. 

Qreat sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather ; 
wears a far cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest 
summer weather. 

Stormy weather he feels acutely; feels restless for 
days before or during a thunderstorm (Phos.) ; dry, 
scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter. 

Cough returns every winter. 

All excretions — diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, per- 
spiration — have a carrion-like odor. 

Hungry in the middle of the night ; must have some- 
thing to eat. 

Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (compare Arn., 
Ant. t., Graph.). 

Diarrhoea : stool watery, dark brown, fetid ; smells 
like carrion. 

Constipation : obstinate, with backache ; from inac- 
tivity of rectum ; when Sulphur fails to relieve. 

Leucorrhoea; large, clotted lumps of an intolerable 
odor. 

Vomiting of pregnancy ; most obstinate cases when 
the best selected remedy fails to relieve. 

Profuse perspiration after acute diseases, with relief 
of all suffering. 

Dirty, greasy-looking skin ; hair dry, tangles easily 
(Bor., Lye). 

Asthma, dyspnoea; worse sitting up; better lying 
down and keeping arms stretched far apart (rev. of 
Ars.). 

Ailments from suppressed itch or other skin dis- 
eases when Sulphur fails to relieve. 

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PSORENUM— O&ni 

Relations. — Complementary Sulphur and Tu- 

berculinum. 

After Lactic ac., in vomiting of pregnai 
After Arn. in traumatic affections of ovari 

Sulphur follow- Psorinum well, in mamma 

IMLSATILLA. 

Adapted to persons of indecisive, alow, phlegmatic 
temperament; Bandy hair, blue eyes, pale I sily 

moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, 
timid, yielding disposition. 

Weep- easily; almost impossible to detail her ail- 
ments without weeping (weeps when thanked, Ly< 

lecially indicated in difi >f women and chil- 

dren. 

Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and 
traded m nstruatum (< hrapl 

Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no : 

'Is, no two attack- alike; very well one hour. \ 
miserable the next. 

Pains : drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting J 
part to another (Kali hi.. I. ttompanied 

witli constant chilliness; the more Bevere the pain, the 
more severe the chill: appear suddenly, leave gradu- 
ally, or tension much in - until very acute and 
then " lets up with a sna] 

Thirstier ith nearly all complaints vie diffi- 

culties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially 
after pork or sausage : the sight or even the thought 
of pork causes disgust. 

Derangements at puberty: menses, suppressed from 

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PULSATILLA— {Continued). 

getting the foot wet; too late, scanty, slimy, painful, 
irregular, intermitting flow, with evening chilliness; 
floxos more during day. Delayed first menstruation. 

Sleep; wide awake in theevening,doesnotwanttogo 
to bed : first sleep restless, sound asleep when it is time 
to get up: awakes languid, unrefreshed (rev. of Nux). 

Styes: especially on upper lid; from eating fat, 
greasy, rich food or pork (compare, Lyc., Staph.). 

Threatened abortion ; flow ceases and then returns 
with increased force ; pains spasmodic, excite suffoca- 
tion and fainting ; must have fresh air. 

Toothache : relieved holding cold water in the mouth 
(Bry., CofF.) ; worse from warm things and heat of room. 

Unable to breathe well, or chilly in a warm room. 

Relations. — Complementary: Lyc, Sulph. ac. 

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all 
ailments. 

One of the best remedies with which to begin the 
treatment of a chronic case. 

Patients who have taken much quinine, even years 
before. 

Ailments from abuse of Cham., Quinine, Mercury, 
Copper, tea-drinking, Sulphur. 

Follows well after Kali bi., Sep., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — In warm close room; evening, at 
twilight; on beginning to move; lying on the left, or 
on the painless side; very rich, fat, indigestible food; 
pressure on the well side if it be made toward the 
diseased side. 

Amelioration. — In the open air; lying on painful 
side (Bry.) ; cold or cool room ; eating or drinking cold 
tliiii^ 

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RANUNCULUS. 

One of our most effective remedies for the bad 
effects of alcoholic be spasmodic hiccough ; 

delirium tremens. 

Day blindness ; mist b< I ire and 

smarting in eyeballs ( Pho« 

Pain-: stiches^ sharp, shooting, neuralgic, myalg 
rheumatic in watts of e raring in paroxysi 

cited or brought on by atmospheric chi inflam- 

matory. 

Pleurisy or pneumonia from sudden exp 
cold, while overheated, or vie 

Corns sensitive to touch, smart, burn (8aly< 

Intercostal rheumatism ; ch 
from touchy motion or turning thA body (Br 

Shingles: preceded or followed by in1 I neu- 

ralgia (Mez.); vesicles may have a bluish-black appear- 
ance. 

Relations. — Compare: A .. A • .. Bry., Clbi 
EuPHOBB., M i-:/,. 

[ncompatible with, Bulph. and Staph. 

Aggravation. — Contact; motion; atmospheric 
change 

RHEUM. 

Suitable for children, especially during dentition. 

Sour smett of the irl<<J< body; chUd sn 
after washing or bathing (Hep.). 

Screaming of children with urging and sour >to<>l>. 

Child impatient, desires many things, and cries; 
dislikes even favorite playthings. 

Sweat of Bcalp, constant, profuse ; whether asleep or 
awake, quiet or in motion, the hair is always wot ; 
may or may not be sour. 

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RHEUM— Continued). 

Difficult dentition ; child restless, irritable, peevish, 
with pale face and sour smell. 

Desires various kinds of food but cannot eat them, 
become repugnant. 

Colic < at once by uncovering an arm or leg. 

Relations. — Complementary after: Magn. c, when 
milk disagrees and child has sour odor. 

Compare: Cham., Col., Hep., Pod., Ipec, Magn. c, 
Sulph. 

RHODODENDRON. 

Nervous persons who dread a storm and are par- 
ticularly afraid of thunder. 

Toothache, every spring and fall during sharp east 
winds ; worse from change of weather, thunderstorm, 
windy weather. 

Rheumatic drawing, tearing pains in all the limbs, 
worse at rest and in wet, cold, windy weather. 

Cannot get asleep or remain asleep unless legs are 
crossed. 

Gout and fibrous deposit in great toe-joint, often 
mistaken for bunion. 

Induration and swelling of the testicles after gonor- 
rhoea ; orchitis, sensation in gland as if it were being 
crushed. 

Relations. — Compare : Bry., Con., Cal., Led., Lyc, 
Rhus. 

Aggravation. — Stormy, windy weather; electrical 
changes in the atmosphere ; on approach of thunder- 
storm. 

Amelioration. — Better from wrapping the head 

warmly, dry heat and exercise. 

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RHUS. 

Adapted to persons of a rheumatic diatl bad 

effects of getting wet, especially after being over- 
heated. 

Ailments from spraining or straining a .-ingle part, 
miiBcle or tendon ; overtiming, particularly from 
b1 retching high u]» to reach things; lying on damp 
ground. 

Affects the fibrous tissue, especially (serous, \U\ 
the right Bide more than the ! 

Pain- : as if sprained : as if a muscle or tendon was 
torn from its attachmenl ; a- if bonee scraped 

with a knife; worse after midnight and in wet, rainy 
weather. 

Q-real restlessness, anxiety, apprehension; cam 
remain in bed; musl change position often to obtain 
relief from pain (musl change position often from 
mental anxiety, A r 

Restless, cannot Btay long in ..in. position. 

Pain in hack between tin- shoulders on -wallow- 
ing. 

Great sensitiveness to open air: putting the hand 
from under the bed-cover brings on cough (Bar., 

Hep.). 

Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, Kit side (Col.); 

aching in left arm, with heart diseae 

Vertigo, when standing or walking: worse when 
lying down (better when lying down. Apis): < rising 
from lying, or stooping (Bry.). 

Dreams of great exertion : rowing, swimming, work- 
ing hard at his daily occupation (Bry.). 

Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around 
mouth and on chin (Nat. m.). 

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RHUS— (Continued). 

A dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in 
intermittent fever. 

When acute diseases assume a typhoid form. 

Diarrhoea: with beginning typhoid; involuntary, 
with great exhaustion; tearing pain down the pos- 
terior part of limbs during stool. 

Erysipelas, vesicular, much swelling, inflammation. 

Relations. — Complementary to : Bryonia. 

Inimical to: Apis, must not be used before or 
after. 

Compare: Arn., Bry., Rhod., Nat. s., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — Before a storm ; cold, wet, rainy 
weather ; at night, especially after midnight; from get- 
ting wet while perspiring ; during rest. 

Amelioration. — Warm, dry w r eather, wrapping up ; 
warm or hot things ; motion ; change of position ; moving 
affected parts. 

The great characteristic of Rhus is that with few 
exceptions the pains occur and are < during repose 
and are > by motion. 

Sepia, often > itching and burning quickly, the ves- 
icles drying up in a few days. 

Rhus is best antidoted by the simillimum. 

KUMEX. 

Extremely sensitive to open air; hoarseness; worse 
evenings; after exposure to cold; voice uncertain. 

Tickling in throat pit, causing dry, teasing cough. 

Dry, incessant, fatiguing cough; worse from chang- 
ing air or room ; evening after lying down ; touching or 
pressing the throat pit; lying on left side; from slightest 

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BUMEX 

inhalati >i air ; cow rs head will 

air wan 

The cough is aggravated in cool air or by anythi 
which increases the volume or rapidity of inspired air. 
naatioi] of lump in throat; descends on swallow- 
ing, bul returns immediately. 

Raw sensation in larynx when conghii 

Urine; involuntary with cough (Canst., Puis., Soil.) 

Early morning diarrhoea; from 5 to 10 a.v 
Pod. 3 Bulph.); stools painless, profuse, off sudden 

urging, driving out of bed in mornii 

Relations. — Compare: Bbll., * II 3., 

Phos., Sang., Bulph. 

Aggravation.— Cool or cold air; lying down | ! 

Amelioration. — Warmth: keeping mouth covered 
to exclude cold air. 

HI TV. 

Scrofulous >sis; bruises and other mechanical 

injuries of bones and p im; Bprains; \ 

ti>: erysipelas; fractures, and especially dislocati 
Symp.). 

Bruised, lame sensation all over, r a tall or 

blow; worse in limbs and joint- (Am.). 

All parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, 
as if bruised (Bap.). 

Restless, turns and changes position frequently when 
lying (Rhus). 

Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and 
ankles. 

Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest (Arn., 
Mill.). 

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RUTA— (Qmtinued). 

Acliiny in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if 
they had been strained. 

After using eyes at fine work, watchmaking, engrav- 
ing (Nat. m.). 

Amblyopia or asthenopia from overexertion of eyes 
or anomalies of refraction; from over use in bad light; 
fine sowing, over-reading at night; misty, dim vision, 
with complete obscuration at. a distance. 

Eyes burn, ache, feel strained; hot, like balls of fire ; 
spasms of lower lids. 

Constipation ; from inactivity, or impaction follow- 
ing mechanical injuries. 

Prolapse of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage ; 
from the slightest stooping; frequent unsuccessful 
urging. 

Pressure on the bladder as if constantly full ; con- 
tinues after urinating ; scanty green urine. 

"Warts ; with sore pains ; flat, smooth on palms of 
hands. 

Backache, relieved by lying on the back. 

Relations. — Compare: Arn., Arg. n,, Con.,Euphr., 
Phyt., Rhus. 

After Arnica, it hastens the curative process in the 
joint. 

SABINA. 

Chronic ailments of women; arthritic pains; tend- 
ency to miscarriages, especially at third month. 

Music is intolerable; produces nervousness, goes 
through bone and marrow. ♦ 

Drawing pains in small of back, from sacrum to pubes, 
in nearly all diseases. 

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SABIN A ed). 

Ailments: following abortion or premature labor; 
hemorrhage from the uterus; flow partly pale i 

partly clotted : W0T8( J ved 

by walking; pain extending from sacrum to jn 

Menses: too early, too pro 
partly fluid, partly clotted; in | who menstru- 

ated very early in life; flow in paroxysms; with colic 
and labor-like pain.- ; , tacrum I 

Retained placenta from atony of uterus; inl 

after-pains. 

Menorrhagia, during climacteric, in women who 
formerly aborted. 

Inflammation of ovaries or uterus after abortion or 
premature labor. 

Promotes expulsion of moles or foreign bodies from 
uterus ( ( !anth.). 

Pig warts with intolerable itching and burni 
exuberant granulations. 

Relations. — Complementary to: Thuja. 

Compare: CaLO., CROC, Mii ' .. 3 .. Tkill. 

Follows Thuja in condyloma and sycotic affe 

SABADILLA. 

Suited to persons of light hair, lair COmplexi 
with a weak, relaxed muscular system. 

Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., >p ; . 

Nervous diseases: twitching, convulsive tremblings, 
catalepsy; from worms. 

Elusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken: that Bhe 
is pregnant when merely swollen from flatus: that she 
has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal. 

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SABADILLA— (Continued). 

Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more 
easily; stitches and most symptoms, especially of 
throat, go from left to right (Lach., Lac c). 

Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, must 
swallow over it. 

Headache: from too much thinking, too close applica- 
tion or attention; from worms. 

Dryness of fauces and throat. 

Parchment-like dryness of skin. 

Relations. — Compare: Col., Colch., Lyc. where < 
is from 4 to 8 p.m. ; Puis. > in open air. 

Follows Bry. and Ran. b. well in pleurisy, and has 
cured after Aeon, and Bry. failed. 

SAMBUCUS. 

Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which 
afiect the air passages especially. 

Persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly become 
emaciated (Iod., Tub.). 

Bad effects of violent mental emotions; anxiety, 
grief or excessive sexual indulgence (Phos. ac, Kali p.). 

(Edematous swellings in various parts of the body, 
especially in legs, instep and feet. 

Dry coryza of infants (sniffles) ; nose dry and com- 
pletely obstructed ; breathing much impeded. 

Dyspnoea : child awakens suddenly nearly suffocated, 
face livid, blue, sits up in bed; turns blue, gasps for 
breath, which it finally gets; attack passes off* but is 
again repeated; child inspires, but cannot expire ; sleeps 
into the attack (Lach.). 

Cough: suffocative, with crying children; worse 

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S AMIM < IS ' 

about midnight; hollow, deep, whooping, with spasm 
of cheel ; with regular inhalations but sighing exhala- 
tions. 

Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm. 

Fever: dry heat whil I" ; on falling ast 

after lying down: withoul thirst; dread* uncovering 
(\ux). 

Profuse sweat over entin body during waking hours ; on 
going to sleep, dry heal returns. 

Relations. — Compare: Cinch., [pec., Sulph. 

Relieves ailments from abuse of Arsenicum. 

Aggravation. — During resl ; after eating fruit. 

Amelioration. — Bitting up in bed. Motion; m< 
of the pains occur during resl and disappear duri 
motion ( Rhus). 

Follow- well after Opium, in bad efl fright. 

SAN<;iIV\KI A. 

The periodical sick headache; begins in morning, 
increases during the day, lasts until evening; head 
feels as if it would burst, or as if eve- would be 
pressed out : n Id ved by si 

Headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards and 
Bettles over right eye (Sil. — over or in left orbit, Spi^ 

Headaches, return at the climacteric: every seventh 
day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph.). 

Neuralgia o\' face relieved by kneeling down and 
pressing the head firmly against the floor; pain 
tends in all directions from the upper jaw. 

Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder (left, Ferr.) ; 
cannot raise the arm, < at night. 
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SANGULNARIA— (Continued). 

turning in pharynx and oesophagus. 

Laryngeal or nasal polypi (Sang, n., Teuc). 

Climacteric ailments: flushes of heat and leucor- 
rhoea ; burning of palms of hands and soles of feet 
(Lach., Sulph.); compelled to throw off bedclothes; 
painful enlargement of breasts. 

Asthma after the "rose cold/' < from odors. 

Cough : dry, waking him at night and not ceasing 
until he sits up in bed and passes flatus ; circumscribed 
red cheeks : night sweats ; diarrhoea. 

Severe cough after whooping-cough ; whooping- 
cough returns every time patient takes cold. 

Eruption on face of young women, especially during 
scanty menses (Bellis, Eug. j.). 

Relations. — Compare: Bell., Iris, Melil., in sick 
headache; Lach., Sulph., in climacteric affections; 
Chel., Phos., Sulph., Verat. v., in pneumonia. 

After Bell, fails in scarlatina. 

As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of Opium. 

SARSAPARILLA. 

For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis. 

Great emaciation ; skin becomes shriveled or lies in 
folds (Abrot., Sanic, Nat.). 

In children; face like old people; enlarged abdo- 
men; dry, flabby skin. (Bar. c, Op.). 

Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body; ulcers, after 
abuse of mercury, in syphilis. 

Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itchlike erup- 
tions, prone to appear in spring; become crusty. 

Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of uri- 
nation (Berb., Equis, Thuja.). 

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SARSAPARELLA- / / ^ 

Passage of gravel or small calculi ; renal <-^! : 
in bladder; bloody urine. 

[Trine: bright and clear but irritating forty, 

flaky, sandy, c d wtihoi 

Painful distention and tenderness in bladder; urine 
dribbles while sitting ; standing, past ely. 

Band in urine or on diaper; child screame 
and while passing it | Bor., L; 

Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wel weather, or mer- 
cury, followed by rheumatism. 

Neuralgia or renal colic: excruciating pains from 
right kidney downwards 

[ntolerable stench on genital organs; fluid pollu- 
tions : bloody seminal emissions M 

Retraction of nipples; nippL small, with* 

unexcitable (8iL ) 

Etching eruption on forehead during 
Psor.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Mere., Sep., eith 
which follow well. 

Compare, Nat. m., Phos., Bbrb., Li 

Frequently called for after al Mercury. 

BECAIiE. 

Adapted to women of tliin. scrawny, i 
tic appearance: irritable, nervous temperament; pale, 
sunken eountenan 

Very old, decrepit, feeble persons. 

Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything 
seems loose and open : no action, vessels flabby : 
sive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery 
blood; the corpuscles are destroyed. 

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SECALE— (Omtinued). 

Hemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes 
bleeding for weeks (Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious 
liquid blood with a strong tendency to putrescence; 
tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially 
when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of 
fluids. 

Leucorrhoea ; green, brown, offensive. 

Boils: small, painful with green contents, mature 
very slowly and heal in the same manner; very debili- 
tating. 

Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting 
diarrhoea. 

Diarrhoea: profuse, watery, putrid, brown; dis- 
charged with great force (Gamb., Crot.); very ex- 
hausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open 
(Apis, Phos.). 

Kneuresis: of old people; urine pale, watery, or 
bloody : urine suppressed. 

Burning ; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of 
fire were falling on the patient (Ars.). 

Gangrene ; dry, senile, worse from external heat. 

Large ecchymoses ; blood blisters ; often commence- 
ment of gangrene. 

Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot 
bear to be covered. 

The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot 
lering ; icy coldness of extremities. 

Menses irregular; copious, dark, fluid; labor-like 
pains in abdomen; continuous discharge of watery 
blood until next period. 

Threatened abortion especially at third month; 
prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains. 

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SECALE -(< / 

Daring labor: pain- irregular; too weak; feeble or 
ceasing; everything seems loose and open bul no 
pulsive action ; fainting. 

After pains: too long; too painful; hour- >n- 

traction. 

Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted 
women; the breasts do not properly fill. 

Pulse si nail, rapid, contracted and often intermittent 

Relations. — Compare : ( Cinnamon in postpartum 
hemorrhage; it increases labor-pains, controls prol 
or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is 
always dangerous. 

Similar to Ars., but cold and heal are opposite. 

Resembles Colchicine in cholera morbus. 

Aggravation. — licit « warmthfrom covering; of all 
affected parts ; iii all dise from heat 

Amelioration. — [n the cold air; getting cold; un- 
covering affected parts. 

SELENIUM. 

Adapted to light complexion; blondes; greal ema- 
ciation of face, bands, legs and feel (Abrot., Cod., Tub.). 

Coryza ending in diarrhoea. 

Lascivious thoughts with impotency (Staph.). 

Hair falls off on head, eyebrows, whiskers and other 
parts of body. 

Hungry; at night (Cina, Psor.); longing for spiritu- 
ous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire. 

Constipation ; stool bard, impacted so that it requires 
mechanical aid ; after serious illness, especially enteric 
fevers. 

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SELENIUM— ( Continued-). 

Impotence, with desire; lewed thoughts, but physi- 
cally impotent. Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid 
emission : weak, ill-humored, often involuntary drib- 
bling of semen and prostatic fluid ; while sitting, at 
stool, during sleep; gleet. 

Priapism, glans drawn up (Berb. — drawn down, 
Canth.). 

Headache from lemonade, tea or wine (Thuja). 

Emaciation of affected parts. 

Relations. — Compare : Phos. in genito-urinary and 
respiratory symptoms; Arg. m. and Stan, in laryngitis 
of singers or speakers, with cough and transparent, 
starchy mucous sputa; must clear the throat constantly. 

Follows well after: Staph., Phos. ac, in sexual 
weakness. 

Itch checked by Mercurials or Sulphur often requires 
Selenium. 

Aggravation. — Draught of air ; in the sun ; from 
lemonade, tea or wine. 

Amelioration. — Taking cold water or cold air into 

the mouth. 

SEPIA. 

Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but 
mild and easy disposition (Puis.). 

Diseases of women : especially those occurring dur- 
ing pregnancy, childbed and lactation; or diseases 
attended with sudden prostration and sinking faint- 
De88 (Murex, ISTux. m.) ; " the washerwoman's remedy," 
complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after 
laundry work. 

Pains extend from other parts to the back (rev. of Sab.); 
are attended with shuddering (with chilliness, Puis.). 

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SEPIA — ( Oontiniu 

Particularly sensitive to cold air. k -<-liill- lily;" 

lack of vital heat, especially in chronic di (in 

acut<- diseases, Led.). 

Qsation of a ball in inner part-: during 
pregnancy, lactation ; with constipation, diarrh 
hemorrhoids, leucorrhcea and all uterine all- 

< loldness of the vertex with headacl of 

vertex, ( !alc, ( Iraph., Bulph.). 

real sadness and weeping. Dread of being aloi 
of men ; of meeting friends. 

I hreedy, miserly | Lj 

Tnclifferent : even to one's family; to one's occupa- 
tion ( Fl. in'.. Phos, 

Indolent ; doc- not want to do anything, either work 
or play ; even an exertion to think. 

Yellow i conjunctiva ; yellow - 

on the chesl ; a yellow saddle across the upper pari 
the cheeks and uoj 

All the coverings of the neck fell too tight and w< 
constantly loosened ( Lac; 

Herpes eiivinatns in isolated spots on upper part 
o\' body (in intersecting rings over whole body, Tell.)« 

Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children, Bulph.). 

Painful Bensation of emptiness in the epigastrium, 
relieved by eating (CheL, Murex, Ph 

Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual 
nisus, returns when flow ceas< 3. 

Constipation : during pregnancy (Alum.) : stool 
hard) knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult; pain in 
rectum during and long alter stool (Nit. ac., Bulph.); 
sense of weight or ball in anus, not > by stool. 

Urine : deposits a reddish clay-colored sediment 

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Sl&PIA— {Continued). 

which adheres to the vessel as if it had been burned 
on: fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room. 

Eneuresis: bed is wet almost as soon as the child 
goes to sleep ; always during the first sleep. 

Violent stitches upward in the vagina ; lancinating 
pains from the uterus to the umbilicus. 

Prolapse of uterus and vagina; pressure and bear- 
ing down as if everything would protrude from pelvis; 
must cross limbs tightly or " sit close " to prevent it ; 
with oppression of breathing (compare, Agar., Bell., 

LlL., MUREX.). 

Irregular menses of nearly every form — early, late, 
scanty, profuse, amenorrhoea or menorrhagia — when 
associated with above-named symptoms. 

Itching of skin ; of various parts ; of external gene- 
talia ; is not > by scratching, and is apt to change to 
burning. 

Relations. — Complementary : Natrum mur. 

Inimical to : Lach., should not be used before or after; 
to Puis., with which it should never be alternated. 

Similar to: Lach., Sang., Ustil., in climacteric irregu- 
larities of the circulation. 

Frequently indicated after: Sil., Sulph. 

A single dose often acts curatively for many weeks. 

Aggravation. — In afternoon or evening ; from cold 
air or dry east wind; sexual excesses; at rest; sultry? 
moist weather ; before a thunderstorm. 

Amelioration. — Warmth of bed, hot applications ; 
violent exercise. 

Many symptoms, especially those of heart and pelvis, 
are both aggravated and ameliorated by rest and ex- 
ercise. 

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SKIM A /; 

It antidotes mental effects of overuse of b in 

patients of sedentary habits who suffer from 01 
mental exertion. 

SANK I LA. 

Dread of downward motion (Bor.). 

Head and neck of children ly duri 

sleep : wets the pillow far around {( !alc. 3 3 

Symptoms constantly changii 

Emaciation, progressive; child looks old, dirt 
asy and brownish ; -kin about neck wrinkled, hi 
in folds < Nat m.). 

Child kick.- off clothin at weather 

(Hep., Sulph.). 

Burning of soles of fret ; must uncover or put them 
in a cool pla 

Foot-sweat ; between th< them - 

offensive (t traph., Psor., Bil. I. 

Incontinence of urine and sphincter unreli- 

able ( Aloe). 

Weakness, bearing down as it' content telvis 

would escape; walking, misstep, or jar, by i 
lying down; desire to support parts by placing hand 
against vulva (Lil., Mm*.. Be] 

Leucorrhcea with strong odor of fish brine. 

Excoriation of skin about anus (Sulph.) ; covering 
perineum and extending to genitals. 

Nausea and vomiting from car or carriage riding. 

Thirst : drinks little and otn-n: is vomited Boon as 
it reaches the Btomach A 

Relations. — Related to: Alum., Abn ., Cal., 

Nat. m., Bil., and others of our groat antipe 

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SILICEA. 

Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine tempera- 
ment : persons of a psoric diathesis. 

Persons of light complexion; fine, dry skin; pale 
fece; weakly, with lax muscles. 

Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, 
not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, 
but from imperfect assimilation (Bar. c, Calc.); over- 
sensitive. 

Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads ; open 
fontanelles and sutures; much sweating about the 
head (lower than Cah), which must be kept warm by 
external covering (Sanic); distended abdomen ; weak 
ankles ; slow in learning to walk. 

Ailments: caused by suppressed foot-sw T eat (Cup., 
Graph., Psor.); exposing the head or back to any 
slight draught of air; bad effects of vaccination, 
especially abscesses (Thuja); chest complaints of 
stonecutters with total loss of strength. 

Want of vital heat when taking active exercise 
(Led., Sep.). 

Has a wonderful control over the suppurative pro- 

- — soft tissue, periosteum or bone — maturing ab- 
uses when desired or reducing excessive suppuration 
(affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Hep.). 

Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken 
kindly to (Iod.). 

Vertigo: spinal, ascending from back of neck to 
head; as if one would fall forward, from looking up 
(Puis. — looking down, Kal., Spig.). 

Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease 
<>1* youth (Psor.); ascending from nape of neck to the 
vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in 

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SELICEA— Qmtinui 

one eye, especially the right (th< 

draught of air or uncovering the bead; byp 

and wrapping up warmly; > by profuse urination. 

Constipation: always befon anddurm ts; diffi- 

cult, as from inactivity tm ; with g raining, 

if rectum was paralyzed; when parti n ><h 

des again. Pieces remain a long time in the 
rectum. 

Discharge of blood from \ y time the 

take- the breast Nfyple is drawn in like a fun 
(8ai 

Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppuj 
(Graph., Sep., M« n 

Takes cold from exposure of 

Sweat of bands, fe< I and axillae ; ofl 

Fistula lachrymalis ; ingrowing toe-nails ; panari- 
tium; blood boils; carbuncles; ulcers of all kii 
fistulas, painful, offensive, high spongy edges, proud 
flesh in them. 

Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tin- 
tissues; tisli hones, needles, bone splint. 

Relations. — Compare: Ebp., IV Kali, p., 

IIypkk.. Ruta, Sank . 

Follows well after: Calc, Graph., Eep.,Nit*ac.,Phos. 
Ts followed well by: Hep., Fluor, ac., I : p. 

Aggravation. — Cold; during menses; during new 
moon; uncovering, especially the head; lying d 

Amelioration. — Warmth, especially from wrappi 
up the head; all the symptoms except gastric, which 
are > by cold food (Lye). 

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla. 

Complementary to : Thuja. 

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SPIGELIA. 

Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects, of rheumatic 
diathesis; to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides 
and lumbrici (Cina, Stan.). Persons with light hair; 
pale, thin, bloated, weak; yellow, earthy skin. 

Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels 
chilly ; touch sends shudder through the whole frame 
(Kali e.). 

Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc. 

Rheumatic affections of heart (KaL, Led., Naja); 
systolic blowing at apex. Aneurism. 

Nervous headache ; periodical, beginning in morn- 
ing at base of brain, spreading over the head and 
locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side (right 
side, Sang., Sil.) ; pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing. 

Headache, at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines 
till sunset (Nat, m., Tab.). 

Intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs ; could not turn 
the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, 
especially on making a false step. 

Sensation : as if eyes were too large for the orbits ; 
sensitive to touch ; as if a band around head (Cac, Carb. 
ac, Sulph.). 

Copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops 
into throat, causing choking at night. 

Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs 
back into the head; from cold, damp, rainy weather. 

Prosopalgia : periodical, left-sided, orbit, eye, malar 
bone, teeth; from morning until sunset; pain tearing, 
burning, cheek dark red; cold, rainy zoeather. 

Toothache from tobacco smoking ; > only on lying 

down and while eating; w r orse from cold air and water; 

returns from thinking about it. 

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SPIGELIA— (Continued). 

Dyspnoea: must lie on right side or with head high 
(Cac., Bpong.) ; pains in chest are stitching, needle-like. 

Chest aftectione with stitching pains synchronous 
with pulse, from motion, < cold, wet weather. 

Palpitation, violent, visible and audible ; when bend- 
ing forward: systolic blowing at apex. 

Stammering, with abdominal ailments ; helmin- 
thiasis. 

Relations. — Compare: A.CON., A a rr., Dio., 

Kali, o., Naja, ECal, Bpong., in heart aft 

Aggravation.— From motion, noise, touch, turning 
the eyes; from every shaking, commoti . 

Amelioration.— Lying on right side with the head 
high ( Ars., ( !ac., Spoi 

8PONGIA. 

Especially adapted to i of children and 

women; lighl hair, lax fibre, fair complexion (Brom.). 

Swelling and induration of glands; _ Brom.). 

Awakens in a Bright and feels as if Buftb 

if he had to breathe through a spong 

Worse after sleep | Lad:. 

Sore throat, after eating Bweet thing 

Thyroid gland swollen even with chin; with suffo- 
cative paroxysms at night Goitre. 

Great dryness of mucous membranes of air pass 
— throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi — " dry as a horn." 

Cough: dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, 
wheezing, whistling; everythi mu- 

cous rdle. 

Cough: dry, sibilant) li < through a pine 

board; < sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying with / 

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SPONGIA— (Continued). 

low, dry. cold winds; > eating or drinking warm 
tilings. 

Croup: anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration (during 

expiration, Aeon.); > before midnight (before morn- 
ing, lie]).). 

Spermatic cord swollen, painful ; testicles, swollen, 
bruised, squeezed; after suppressed gonorrhoea or mal- 
treated orchitis. 

Relations. — Spongia follows well after: Aeon., 
Hep., in cough and croup, when dryness prevails; 
after Spong., Hep., when mucus commences to rattle. 

Compare: Arn., Caust., Iod., Lach., Nux m., sputa 
loosened but must be swallowed again. 

STANNUM. 

Extreme exhaustion of mind and body. 

Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach (Chel., 
Phos., Sep.). 

Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but 
crying makes her worse (Nat. m., Puis., Sep.); faint 
and weak, especially when going down stairs ; can go 
up well enough (Bor. — rev. of Calc). 

'Headache or neuralgia; pains begin lightly and 
increase gradually to the highest point and then 
gradually decline. 

Prolapsus, worse during stool (with diarrhoea, Pod.) ; 
so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting down. 

While dressing in the morning has to sit down 
era! times to rest. 

Nausea and vomiting; in the morning; from the 
odor of cooking food (Colch.). 

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8TANNUM— 

at weakness in chest; worse from talking, Ii 
ing, reading aloud, singing to /'///.-. 

Cough: deep, hollow, shattering, strangling; 
cussive, in paroxysms of thr< 
dry, while in bed, in evening ; 

Hoarseness: deep, husky, hollow d for 

the time by coughing or expectorating mm 

Relations. — Complementary : Pulsatilla. 

Aggravation. — Laughing and 
using the voice; lying on righl Bide; drinking any- 
thing warm (cold drink-. Spong. 

Amelioration. — ( toughing or expectorating relie^ 
hoarsen* 

Stannuro follows well aftei [lowed 

by Phos., Sil., Sulph. 

8TAPHISAGRIA. 

Ailments from indignation, with vexation or re- 
vcd displeasure | Aur., ( Sol. s Phos. a< 

Ill-humored children cry for things which, after re- 
ceiving, they petulantly push <>r throw awa; 9. . 

For the bad effects of: onanism, sexual i 
loss of vital fluids, chagrin, mortification, unmerited 
insults. 

Onanism: persistently dwelling on sexual subject 
constantly thinking of Bexual pleasui 

Spermatorrhoea : with Bunken features ; guilty, 
abashed look: emissions followed by backache, weak- 
ness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy sua! 
organs. 

Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory 
from sexual abuses (Phos, ac.). 

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STAPHISAGRIA-(CbnJmwed). 

Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments ; 
post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, like 
the cutting of a knife. 

Colie after lithotomy or ovariotomy ; in abdominal 

lion (Bis., Hep.). 

Styes, chalazce on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, 
leaving lard nodosities in their wake (Con., Thuja). 

Toothache: during menses ; sound as well as decayed 
teeth; painful to touch of food or drink, but not from 
biting or chewing; drawing cold air into mouth. 

Teeth are black or show dark streaks through them ; 
cannot be kept clean ; crumble ; decay on edges ; scor- 
butic cachexia. 

Sensation as if stomach were hanging down, relaxed 
(Agar., Ipec). 

Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the 
fingers (Caul., Colch., Lye); inflammation of pha- 
langes with sweating suppuration. 

Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly 
there even when shaking the head. 

Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours ; in 
young married women ; after coition ; after difficult 
labor (Op.). 

Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sen- 
sitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat.). 

Cough : only in the daytime, or only after dinner, 
worse after eating meat; after vexation or indignation ; 
excited by cleaning teeth. 

Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in 
summer; cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.). 

Graving for tobacco. 

Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over. 

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8TAPHISAGRIA- d 

In fevers ravenoufl banger for daye before attack. 
Extreme hunger even when stomach is ftill of food. 

Relations. — Compare: ( u, [on., I/... 

Pi LS. 

Col. and Staph, act well after each other; Caust., 
Co}.. Staph., follow in order named. 

Aggravation. — Mental affections ; from anger, indi 
nation, grief, mortification; loss of fluids; tobac 
onanism: sexual excesses; from tl inch on 

affected part-. 

[nimical; Ran. bulb., either before or after. 

STRAMONIUM, 

Adapted to: ailments of young plethoric p 
(Aeon., Bell.); especially children in chorea; mania 
and fever delirium. 

Delirium: simulates Bell, and Syoa liffera in 

degree. The delirium is more furious, the mania more 
acute, while th< stion, thou£ I bai 1 1 

is much less than Bell., never approaching a true in- 
flammation. 

Convulsions with consciousn* 96 Xux — without, 
Bell., Cic, Eyos.); renewed by sight of bright light 
o\' mirror or water | L\ 

Desires light and company ; cannot hear to be aloi 
worse in the dark and solitude: cannot walk in a dark 
room. 

Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the 
first object seen. 

Vomiting; as soon as he raises head from pillow: 
from a bright light 

Sleepy, but cannot Bleep (Bell., Cham., Op.). 
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STRAMONIUM— ( Continued). 

Hallucinations which terrify the patient. 

Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus). 

Head feels as if scattered about (Bap.). 

No pain with most complaints; painlessness is char- 
acteristic (Op.). 

Disposed to talk continually (Cic, Lach.): incessant 
and incoherent talking and laughing ; praying, beseech- 
ing, entreating ; with suppressed menses. 

Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, 
lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.). 

Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, 
especially upper part of body. 

Hydrophobia : with excessive aversion to liquids 
(Bell., Lys.); spasmodic constriction of throat. 

Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant ; pupils widely dila- 
ted, insensible ; contortion of eyes and eyelids. 

Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded. 

Face hot and red with cold hands and feet ; circum- 
scribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face ; risus 
sardonicus. 

Relations. — Stramonium often follows : Bell., Cup., 
Hyos., Lys. 

In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with charac- 
teristic delirium, Sec. often acts promptly when Stram. 
has failed. 

After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell, in 
whooping-cough. 

Aggravation. — In the dark ; when alone ; looking at 
bright or shining objects; after sleep; attempting to 
-wallow. 

Amelioration. — From light ; from company ; 

warmth. 

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SULPHUR. 

Adapted to persons of a scrofulous dial 
to venous congi portal ~ 81 

Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, 
quick tempered, plethoric, .-kin 

atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c, I 

For Lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and 
sit stooped; walk stooping like old m 

Standing is th hur pai 

not stand. 

Dirty, filthy people, prom- to skin afl 

Children: cannot beat to be washed or bathed (in 
cold water, Ant c); emaciated, big-bellied; r 
hot, kiek off the clothes at night (Hep., Banic); have 
worms, hut th- remedy Jail-. 

When carefully selected remedies tail to produ 
favorable effe< cially in acute di 

quently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the 

'cm (in chronic diseases, I tor.). 

Scrofulous chronic diseases that result from sup- 
pressed eruption- | Pb< 

Complaints thai are contin uaUy relajfsing (menses, leu- 
corrhcea, etc.); patient Beeme well when 

the disease returns again and again. 

sick headache every week or every two week-: 
prostrating, weakening (Sang.) ; with hot vertex and 
cold feet. 

Constant heat on top of head : cold feet in daytime, 
with burning soles at night, wants to rind a cool place 
for them (Sang., Banic); puts them out of bed to cool 
them off: cramps in calves and soles at night. 

Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint 

spells. 

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SULPHUR— (Continued). 

"Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach 
about 11 a.m. : cannot wait for lunch. 

Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of 
hod early in the morning; as if the bowels were too 
weak to retain their contents. 

Menses: too early, profuse, protracted. 

Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last mis- 
carriage. 

"A single dose at new moon." — Lippe. 

Constipation : stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt 
(Bry.) ; large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool 
on account of pain ; alternating with diarrhoea. 

The discharge both of urine and feces is painful to 
parts over which they pass; passes large quantities of 
colorless urine ; parts around anus red, excoriated. 

Nightly suffocative attacks, w T ants the doors and 
windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at 
night ; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness 
the whole night. 

Aversion to being washed; always worse after a bath. 

Skin affections that have been treated by medicated 
soaps and washes ; hemorrhoids, that have been treated 
with ointments. 

Happy dreams, wakes up singing. 

Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a 
fancy to. 

Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc, Thuja). 

Relations. — Complementary : Aloe, Psor. 

Compatible : Calc, Lye, Sars., Sep., Puis. 

Sulph., Calc, Lye; or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. fre- 
quently follow in given order. 

Calc. must not be used before Sulph. 

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SULPHUR— Omi 

Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it 
well in pneumonia and other acute di 

Aggravation. — At rest; when standing; warmth m 
bed; washing, bathing; changeable weather. 

Amelioration. — Dry, warm weather; lying on ti 
righl ri< : u.), 

SULPHURIC ACID. 

Adapted to the light-haired; old people, illy 

women: flushes of heal in climacteric 

Child ha >ur odor despite careful washing 

(Rheum.). 

Feels in a great hurry; every thing musl be done 
quickly \ _. n.). 

Qgation as it' the brain was loose in forehead and 
foiling from Bide b B< IL, Bry., Kl. - 3 i 

Chronic heartburn, Bour eructati eth on 

Rob.). 

Water drank causes coldi mach ui 

mixed with alcoholic liquor. 

Sensation as if trembling all over, without real 
trembling. 

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bred 
chafing and livid skin. 

Ecchymosis; cicatrices turn Mood-red or blue, are 
painful. 

Gangrenous tendency after a bruise. 

Petechia: purpura hemorrhagica; blue spots: livid, 
red itching blotches. 

Hemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of 
the body (Crot., Mur. ac. Nit ac.). 

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SULPHURIC ACID— (Continued). 

Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is 
cold and body bathed in cold sweat. 

Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dys- 
pasia : no other symptoms (Psor., Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Puis. 

Follows well after Arn. with bruised pain, livid skin 
and profuse sweat. Ailments, from brandy drinking. 

" Sulphuric acid, one part, with three parts of alcohol, 
10 to 15 drops, three times daily for three or four weeks, 
has been successfully used to subdue the craving for 
liquor." — Hering. 

SYPHILINIUM. 

Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with twilight 
and end with daylight (Merc, Phyt.). 

Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.) ; shift- 
ing and require frequent change of position. 

All symptoms are worse at night (Merc). 

Eruptions : dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming 
blue when getting cold. 

Extreme emaciation (Abrot., Iod.). 

Heart : lancinating pains from base to apex, at night 
(from apex to base, Med.). 

Loss of memory ; cannot remember names of books, 
persons or places ; arithmetical calculation difficult. 

Sensation: as if going insane; as if about to be 
paralyzed. 

Terrible dread of night on account of mental and 
physical exhaustion on awakening; it is intolerable, 
death is preferable. 

Fears terrible suffering from exhaustion on awak- 
ening (Lach.). 

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SYPHHJJriUM— (Continued 

Headache, neuralgic in chara t - i 1 1 ir sleepless- 

ness and delirium at night; commencing at 4 p.m.; 
worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (<•« 
11 or 12 p.m., Lye); falling of tin- hair. 

Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tend 
to alcoholism ( Psor., Tub* 

Obstinate constipation for years; rectum - ied 

up with strictures; when enema were used the ag 
of passage was like labor (Tub. |. 

When the best selected remedy tail- to relieve 
permanently improve, in Byphilitic affectioi 

Relations. — Compare: Ai k.. Asai .. Kali .t.. Me; 
in hour diseases and syphilitic affectioi 

Aggravation. — At night, from twilight to daylight 

TABACUM. 

Diseases originating in cerebral irritation followed 
by marked irritation <>f functions of vag 
Emaciation <>f cheeks and back. 
Complete prostration of entire muscular system. 

Sensation of excessive wretchedness. 

Icy coldness of surface; covered with cold sw< 

Symptoms occur in paroxysms — asthma, >kk 1 
ache, vertigo. 

Great despondency with indigestion, palpitation, in- 
termittent pulse. 

Vertigo: death-like pallor, increasing to loss of con- 
sciousness; relieved in open air and by vomiting: on 
rising or looking upward: m 

Sick headache coming on in early morning, intoler- 
able by noon, deathly nausea, violent vomiting; < by 
noise and light; periodical, lasting one or two day-. 

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TABACUM— (Continued). 

Sudden pain on right side of head as if struck by a 
hammer or a club. 

Dim-sighted; sees as through a veil; strabismus, 
depending upon brain troubles. 

Amaurosis, from atrophy of retina or optic nerve. 

Fare pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered 
with cold sweat. 

Nausea: incessant, as if seasick ; vomiting, on least 
motion ; with faintness ; > in open air. 

Vomiting: violent, with cold sweat; soon as he 
begins to move ; during pregnancy, when lactic acid 
fails (Psor.). 

Seasickness ; deathly nausea, pallor, coldness ; < by 
least motion and > on deck in fresh, cold air. 

Terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. 

Child wants abdomen uncovered ; relieves nausea and 
vomiting. 

Palpitation : violent when lying on left side ; goes 
off when turning to the right. 

Pulse : quick, full, large ; small, intermittent, ex- 
ceedingly slow; feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible. 

Hands icy cold, body warm. 

Legs icy cold, from knees down ; trembling of limbs. 

Relations. — Antidotes of bad effects of tobacco, 
are : 

Ipec, for excessive nausea and vomiting. 

Ars., for the bad effects of tobacco chewing. 

NuXj for the gastric symptoms next morning after 
smoking. Phos., palpitation, tobacco heart and sex- 
ual weakness. 

Ign., for annoying hiccough from tobacco chewing. 

Clem, or Plant., for tobacco toothache. 

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TABACUM— 

p., neuralgic affections _ln side of face; dys- 

pepsia; chronic nervousi tally in sedentary 

occupations. 

Lye, for impotence, Bpasms, cold sweat from 
smoking. 

Gels., occipital headache and vertigo from wive 

ose, especially smokii 

Tabacum, potentized ciO" or 1000) to relieve * 
rible craving when discontinuing 

Amelioration. — 0\ . cold air. 

TARAXACUM. 

For gastric and bilious attack-, especially gastric 
headact 

Mapped ttmgvu (Lach., Nat. d ed with a 

white film with sensation of rawness. This till 
oft" in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive 
spots (Ran. 

Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver 
(mapped tongue). 

Debility, loss of appetite, proj 
daily when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever. 

Restlessness of limbs in typhoid (Rhus, Zin 

Relations.— Compare : Bry., Chel., Eydr., XlX. ill 
gastric and bilious affections. 

Aggravation. — Almost all symptom- appear when 
sitting. 

TAKANTILA. 

Adapted to highly nervous organism-, especially 
choreic affections where whole body, or right arm and 
left leg are affected (Agar.). 

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TARANTULA— (Continued). 

Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with 
inability to do anything. 

Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position ; must 
keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms (rev. 
o\\ Rhus, Ruta). 

Hyperesthesia: least excitement irritates, followed 
by languid sadness. 

Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic 
pain in chest and cardiac region. 

Headache ; intense, as if thousands of needles were 
pricking in the brain. 

Malignant ulcers ; carbuncle, anthrax ; gangrene. 

Symptoms appear periodically. 

Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, 
> by rubbing head against the pillow. 

At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue 
intolerably dry, especially when sleeping (Nux m.). 

Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms 
of uterus ; pruritus vulvae become intolerable. 

Relations. — Similar to: Apis., Lach., Crot., Naja, 
Ther. 

Aggravation. — Motion; contact; noise; change of 
weather. 

Amelioration. — In open air ; music ; rubbing af- 
fected parts. 

Termini of nerves became so irritated and sensitive 
that some kind of friction is necessary to obtain relief. 

TEREBINTH. 

The urine has the odor of violets. 

Tongue smooth, glossy, as if deprived of papillae. 

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TEREBINTH 

Hematuria: blood, thoroughly mixed with the 
urine; sediment, like coffee-grounds; cloudy, smoky, 

albuminous: profuse, dark or black, painL 

Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidn> 

bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus; with hemorrh 

and malignant tendency. 
Purpura hemorrhagica; fresh ecchymoe great 

numbers from day to day (Sulpli. & 

Ascites with anasarca, in organic 1< >f kid- 

neys. 

Hemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; pas- 
sive, dark with ulceration or epithelial b ration. 

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, blad- 
der and urethra. 

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few it' any 
oasts. 

Strangury; spasmodic retention of urn 

Relations. — Compare: Alumin, Ahn.. A 
Canth., Lach., X ir. \<\ 

Ts recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and 
African lovers. 

THEKIDIOX. 

Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Axg. n., Cann. 

i., Xux m.). 

Vertigo: on closing the eyes (Thuja — on opening 

them, Tab.); from any, even ; aural or laby- 

rinthine (Meniere's diseae 

Nausea, from least motion, and especially on closi 

eyes. 

Headaehe : when beginning to move, as of a dull 
heavy pressure behind the eyes; violent, deep, in the 

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THERIDION— (Continued). 

brain; < lying own; very much < from others 
walking on the floor, or least motion of head. 

Er < to penetrate through the whole body, 

ring nausea and vertigo. 

Toothache; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth. 

Seasickness of nervous women; they close their 
eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel and grow 
dcathlv sick. 

Pains in the bones all over as if broken. 

Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways 
in a chair to avoid pressure against spine (Chin, s.) ; 
< by least noise and jar of foot on floor. 

" In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to 
the root of the evil and destroys the cause." — Dr. 
Baruch. 

Phthisis florida often effects a cure if given in the 
early stages of disease. 

In scrofulosis where the best-chosen remedies fail 
to relieve. 

Relations. — Follows well after : Cal. and Lye. 

THUJA. 

Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl, 
which is related to sycosis as effect is to cause. 

Thuja bears the same relation to the sycosis of 
Hahnemann — fig warts, condylomata and wart-like 
excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces — 
that Sulphur does to psora, or Mercury to syphilis. 

Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy 
dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin. 

Ailments from had effects of vaccination (Sil.). 

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THUJA— (C /). 

Sweat only on uncovered parte. 

Vertigo, when closing On 

Headache: as if a nail had been driven Into parietal 
hone (CofE, r^ii.j ; or as it' a convex button yn 
pressed on the part; from sexual excesses; from 
(Sel.) 

White scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling. 

Abdomen: as it' an animal were crying; motion as 
it* something alive; protrudes here and there like the 
arm of a foetus (Croc., Nux m.). 

Toothache from tea drinking. 

"On blowing the nose a pressing pain in the hollow 
tooth (at the side of it).'" — Bonninghausbn. 

Distressing, burning pain in lefl ovarian n \ 
when walking or riding, musl -it or lie down (Cro 
worse at each menstrual casus. 

Constipation : violent pains in rectum COmp 

sation of effort; recedes, after being partly expelled 
(Sanic, Bil.). 

Diarrhoea: early morning; expelled forcibly with 
much flatus (Aloe) ; gurgling, as wa1 m a bung- 

hole; after breakfast, coffee, tat food, vaccination. 

Skin: looks dirty; brown or brownish, whit 
here and there; warts, larg ly. pedunculated; 

eruptions only on covered parts, burn after scratching. 

Flesh feels as if beaten, from the bones (as it' scraped, 
Rhus). 

Sensation after urinating, as if urine was trickling 
in urethra : severe cutting pain at close of urination 
(Sars.). 

Perspiration, smelling like honey, on the genitals. 

When walking the limbs feel as if made of wood. 

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THUJA— {Continued). 

Sensation as if the body, especially the limbs, were 
mad* of glass and would break easily. 

Suppressed gonorrhoea : causing articular rheuma- 
tism; prostatitis; sycosis; impotence; condylomata, 
and many constitutional troubles. 

Nails : deformed, brittle (Ant. c). 

Relations. — Complementary : Med., Sab., Sil. 

Compare: Cann. s., Canth., Cop., Staph.; Cinnab. 
for warts on the prepuce. 

Aggravation. — At night ; from heat of bed ; at 3 
a.m. and 3 p.m., from cold, damp air; narcotics. 

TRILLIUM. 

Hemorrhage; copious, both active and passive, usu- 
ally bright red; from nose, lungs, kidneys and uterus 
(Ipec, Mill.). 

Epistaxis; profuse, passive, bright red. 

Bleeding from cavity after extraction of a tooth 
(Ham.). 

Menses : profuse, every two weeks, lasting a week 
or longer (Calc. p.) ; after overexertion or too long a 
ride. 

Menorrhagia : flow, profuse, gushing, bright red ; 
at least movement; from displaced uterus; at the cli- 
macteric ; every two weeks, dark, clotted (Thlas.). 

Hemoptysis: incipient phthisis, with bloody sputa; 
in advanced" stages, with copious, purulent expectora- 
tion and troublesome cough. 

Sensation as if hij>< and small of back were falling 
to pieces; as if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling 
apart; as if bones of pelvis were broken (^Esc). 

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TRILLIUM— (< / 

Relations. — Complementary to : Calc. phos. in m< 
Btrual and hemorrhagic affectioi 

►mpare: Cinch., Bbll., Kali c, Mill.. Lach., 
Sep., Sulph. 

TUBEKCLLIM M. 

Adapted to persons of light complexion; bltu 
blonde in preference to brunette ; tall, slim, flat, nan 
chest; active and precocioufl mentally, weak pi. 
(•ally ; tubercular diathesis. 

When with a family history of tubercular affections 
the besl selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently 
impiw 

rrnptoms evi r changing; ailments affecting one organ, 
tlim another — the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, stom- 
ach, nervous Bystem — beginning Buddenly, 

suddenly. 

Takes cold easily without knowing how or wh 

Emaciation rapid and pr* d; losing flesh while 

eating well (Abrot, Calc. Con., [od., Nat). 

Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively 
appear in the n< reen, fetid pus. 

Plica polonica; Beveral bad cases permanently cured 

alter Bor. and Psor. tailed. 

Tubercular deposit begins in apex of lungs, usually 
the left (Phos., Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary: Psor., Sulph. 

When Psor.. Sulph., or the best selected remedy 
fails to relieve or permanently improve. 

Belladonna, for acute attacks, congestive or inflam- 
matory, occurring in tubercular diseat 

Hydrastis to fatten patients cured with Tuberculi- 

num. 

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YERATRUM. 

Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital 
forces. 

id />< rspiration on the forehead, with nearly all com- 
plaints. 

Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently re- 
fuses to talk. 

Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, espe- 
eially clothes (Taren.). 

Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., 

Sulph.). 

Sinking feeling during hemorrhage. 

Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness 
I Sep.). 

Face: pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken; red 
while lying, becomes pale on rising up (Aeon.). 

Craving for acids or refreshing things (Phos. ac). 

Icy coldness of face, tip of nose, feet, hands and 
many other parts. 

Violent vomiting ivith profuse diarrhoea. 

Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives. 

Cholera: vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, 
watery, gushing, prostrating; after fright. 

Dysmenorrhoea: with vomiting and purging, or ex- 
hausting diarrhoea with cold sweat (Amm. c, Bov.); 

30 weak can scarcely stand for two days at each 
menstrual nisus. 

Bad effects of opium eating, tobacco chewing. 

Pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting 
worse from warmth of bed, better by continued 
walking. 

In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with ex- 
ie coldness, thirst; face cold and collapsed; skin 

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tTERATRUM- 

cold and clammy, great prostration; cold I on 

forehead and deathly pallor on fa 

Relations. — After: Ajs., Am.. Cinch., Cup., I 
After, Camph. in cholera and cholera morl 
After Anmi. c, Carbo v. and Bov., in d; >rrhcea 

with vomiting and purging. 
I M'tcn removes bad efted of alcohol 

and tobacc< 

VEKATBUM VIKIDE. 

For fall-blooded, plethoric persons. 

Congestion, especially to base of brain, of chet 

spine and Btomach. 

Violent pains attending inflammation. 

Acute rheumatism, high fever, full. hard, rapid 
pulfi pains in .joint- and iiiib«-l,> (IJrv.. 

Salve ac. ). 

Child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsioi 
continually jerking or nodding of the head. 

Nervous or Bick headache m from sup- 

pressed menses; intense, almost apoplectic, with 
lent nausea and vomiting. 

Congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot 
thick speech, slow full pulse, hard as iron. 

Convulsions: dim vision ; basilar meningitis; head 
retracted: child on ve] spasms. 

Cerebro spinal disease - ; with spasms, dilated pupils, 
tetanic convulsions, opisthol old. clammy per- 

spiration. 

Sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive 
to sound; double or partial vision (Gels., Glon.). 

Tongue : white or yellow with red streak down the 
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VEBATRUM \1 HIDE— (Continued). 

middle; dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no 
coating on either Bide; feels scalded (Sang.). 

Veratrum viride should not be given simply to 
"bring down the pulse" or "control the heart's 
action," but like any other remedy for the totality of 
the symptoms. 

ZINCUM. 

Increased fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities ; 
must move them constantly. 

Always feels better every way as soon as the menses 
begin to flow ; it relieves all her sufferings, but they re- 
turn again soon after the flow ceases. 

In cerebral affections ; in pending paralysis of 
brain ; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to 
develop exanthemata; symptoms of effusion into ven- 
tricles. 

Child cries out during sleep ; whole body jerks 
during sleep ; rolls the head from side to side ; face 
alternately pale and red. 

Chorea : from suppressed eruptions ; from fright. 

Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast 
enough (incipient brain disease in children). 

Feet sweaty and sore about toes ; fetid, suppressed 
foot-sweat; very nervous. 

Spinal irritation; prostration of strength. 

Cannot bear back touched (Taran.). 

Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards. 

During sweat, cannot tolerate any covering. 

Relations. — Compare: Hell., Tuber., in incipient 
brain diseases from suppressed eruptions. 

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ZINCTM — 

Aggravation. — Of many Bymptome from drinking 
wine, even a -mall quantity (Alum.. Con.). 

I- followed well by Ign. but nol by Xux. which dia- 

Inimical. — Cham, and Xux: should nol be 
before or after. 



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